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90%
90% -- share of comments triggering no known ai writing patterns for public social media comments (LinkedIn and X) (2026)
Nearly 90% of analyzed social media comments triggered none of the known AI-isms in the vendor's library.
- The source states 'nearly 90%'.
- Sample limited to comments on posts by Ethan Mollick.
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90%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Sample Size
500
Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Musubi Labs
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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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Vendor study scoring 500 comments across 10 posts using a rubric of 8 dimensions and a library of 60+ known AI-writing patterns
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public social media comments (LinkedIn and X): 90% share of comments triggering no known ai writing patterns. Source: Musubi Labs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-comments-no-ai-vocabulary-tells-2026
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