6% old people re-sharing. The other 54% were bot accounts.

Deekseek that was not encrypting data

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/deepseek_database_left_open/

Not enough attention is given to the literal arms race we find ourselves in. Most big tech buzz is all "yay innovation!" Or "oh no, jobs!"

Don't get me wrong, the impact AI will have on pretty much every industry shouldn't be underestimated, and people are and will lose their jobs.

But information is power. Sun Tzu knew this a long time ago. The AI arms race won't just change job markets - it will change global markets, public opinion, warfare, everything.

The ability to mass produce seemingly reliable information in moments - and the consequent inability to trust or source information in a world flooded by it...

I can't find the words to express how dangerous it is. The long-term consequences are going to be on par with - and terribly codependent with - the consequences of the industrial revolution.

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.

According to Wiz, DeepSeek promptly fixed the issue when informed about it.

Yeah. This is a way bigger problem with this article than anything else. The entier thing hinges on their AI-detecting AI working. I have looked into how effective these kinds of tools are because it has come up at my work, and independent review of them suggests they're, like, 3-5 times worse than the (already pretty bad) accuracy rates they claim, and disproportionatly flag non-native English speakers as AI generated. So, I'm highly skeptical of this claim as well.

38% of the population as user. 20% daily active users. The classic way to grow is to squeeze the users and advertisers more and more with fees, subscriptions, tiers, ... I guess the exodus at X has them spooked of what could happen if they continue with that plan, so they're trying this AI thing.

SocialFixer would help.

8k posts sounds like 0.00014 percent of Facebook posts

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.

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.

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.

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.

These people should be shot. With large spoons. Because it’ll hurt more.

Ok this made me laugh.

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.

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

Thank you. I’ve wondered the same thing. I mean the whole goal of the LLMs is to be indistinguishable from normal human created test. I have a hard time telling most of the time. Now the images I can spot in a heartbeat. But I imagine that will change too.

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.