Take note this does not appear to be an independent study. Tell me I'm wrong?
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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You know what they say about Al...
this is ai gen so stop it
This is a pretty sweet ad for https://originality.ai/ai-checker
They don't talk much about their secret sauce. That 40% figure is based on "trust me bro, our tool is really good". Would have been nice to be able to verify this figure / use the technique elsewhere.
It's pretty tiring to keep seeing ads masquerading as research.
damn no wonder i feel so cheap after scrolling a fb feed for an hour
how tf did it take 6 years to analyze 8000 posts
I pretty sure they selected posts from a 6 year period, not that they spent six years on the analysis.
In that case, how/why did they only choose 8000 posts over 6 years? Facebook probably gets more than 8000 new posts per second.
I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll before getting to someone who doesn't understand statistics complaining about the sample size...
There's likely been trillions of posts on Facebook during that time frame. Is a sample size of 8000 really sufficient for a corpus that large?
Have you ever heard of "margin of error"?
Learn statistics, it's actually super informative.
Every study uses sampling. They don't have the resources to check everything. I have to imagine it took a lot of work to verify conclusively whether something was or was not generated. It's a much larger sample size than a lot of studies.
I have to imagine it took a lot of work to verify conclusively whether something was or was not generated
The study is by a company that creates software to detect AI content, so it's literally their whole job
(it also means there's a conflict of interest, since they want to show how much content their detector can detect)
It’s a much larger sample size than a lot of studies.
It's an extremely small proportion of the total number of Facebook posts though. Nowhere near enough for statistical significance.
It's an extremely small proportion of the total number of Facebook posts though. Nowhere near enough for statistical significance.
The proportion of the total population size is almost irrelevant when you use random sampling. It doesn't rely on examining a large portion of the population, but rather that it becomes increasingly unlikely for the sample set to deviate dramatically from the population size as the number of samples rises. This is a function of the number of samples you take, decoupled from the population size.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)
Usually if you see a major poll in a population, it'll be something like 1k to 2k people who get polled, regardless of the population size.
I can’t even fathom how they would go about testing if it’s an AI or not. I can’t imagine that’s an exact science either.
8k posts sounds like 0.00014 percent of Facebook posts
It probably is but it’s a large sample size and if the selection is random enough, it’s likely sufficient to extrapolate some numbers. This is basically how drug testing works.
And statistical analysis. The larger the universe, the smaller the true random sample you need
I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’d be interested to see what they used to make that determination. All of the AI detection I know of are prone to a lot of false-positives.
When I was looking for a job, I ran into a guide to make money using AI:
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Choose a top selling book.
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Ask Chat GPT to give a summary for each chapter.
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Paste the summaries into Google docs.
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Export as PDF.
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Sell on Amazon as a digital “short version” or “study guide” for the original book.
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Repeat with other books.
Blew my mind how much hot stinking garbage is out there.
These people should be shot. With large spoons. Because it’ll hurt more.
They should bring back chain shot.
Thanks.
Now do Reddit comments.
There’s an AI reply option now. Interested to know how far that is off just being part of the regular comments.
Deleted my account a little while ago but for my feed I think it was higher. You couldn't block them fast enough, and mostly obviously AI pictures that if the comments are to be believed as being actual humans...people believed were real. It was a total nightmare land. I'm sad that I have now lost contact with the few distant friends I had on there but otherwise NOTHING lost.
and, is the jury already in on which ai is most fuckable?
I'd tell you, but my area network appears to have already started blocking DeepSeek.
Deekseek that was not encrypting data
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/deepseek_database_left_open/
This doesn't have anything to do with encryption. They had a public database (anyone on the internet could query it) and forgot to put a password on it. It really shouldn't even be public.
According to Wiz, DeepSeek promptly fixed the issue when informed about it.
:-/
The other 60% are old people re-sharing it.
Ok this made me laugh.
6% old people re-sharing. The other 54% were bot accounts.
Well, there's also 0.1% who are relatives of old people who are tring to keep in touch with the batty old meme-forwarders. I was one of those until the ones who mattered most to me shuffled off this mortal coil.
In the last month it has become a barrage. The algorithms also seem to be in overdrive. If I like something I get bombarded with more stuff like that within a day. I'd say 90% of my feed is shit that has nothing to do with anyone I know.
If it wasn't a way to stay in touch with family and friends I'd bail.
A friend told me he saw 16 posts before he saw a post from a friend or page he’d liked.
I’m not surprised. And of those 16 posts how many of them made him mad? Since that seems like the entire purpose of FB anymore. Anger drives engagement. It’s why rage bait works so well. I highly recommend everyone disconnect from Facebook for this reason. Hell Reddit was even going down that path before we all left.
SocialFixer would help.
I'm a big fan of a particularly virtual table-top tool called Foundry, which I use to host D&D games.
The Instagram algorithm picked this out of my cookies and fed it to Temu, which determined I must really like... lathing and spot-wielding and shit. So I keep getting ads for miniature industrial equipment. At-home tools for die casting and alloying and the like. From Temu! Absolutely crazy.
I made the mistake of clicking like on an Indian machine shop (I admired how they made do with crude conditions). Well now I get bombarded with not just those videos but Mexican welding shops, Pakistani auto repair places...
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