B
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5%
5% -- share of comments with moderate confidence human authorship for public social media comments (LinkedIn and X) (2026)
About 5% to 10% of comments gave moderate confidence of direct human authorship.
- Manual rubric-based classification of 500 comments across 10 posts on LinkedIn and X
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Value
5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Sample Size
500
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Musubi Labs
Primary
Tier B
https://www.musubilabs.ai/post/ai-comment-detection-what-we-found ↗
Source Article
We Tried to Detect Bots in 500 Comments. We Found a More Interesting Problem. | Musubi
The short version: We set out to build a text-level bot detector by trying to sort 500 comments from public social media posts into "bot" and "human." After analyzing the results, we realized we were asking the wrong question. The more useful question turned out to be "does this comment add anything…
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Musubi Labs
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Methodology
Manual classification; range 5-10%, midpoint reported
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Industrymarketing
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public social media comments (LinkedIn and X): 5% share of comments with moderate confidence human authorship. Source: Musubi Labs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-comments-clearly-human-share-2026
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