Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I pretty sure they selected posts from a 6 year period, not that they spent six years on the analysis.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In that case, how did they only choose 8000 posts over 6 years? Facebook probably gets more than 8000 new posts per minute.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was wondering how far I’d have to scroll before getting to someone who doesn’t understand statistics complaining about the sample size…

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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?

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    • hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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’s a much larger sample size than a lot of studies.

        It’s a very small proportion of the total number of Facebook posts though.

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