According to an online survey conducted in the United States in November 2021, 19 percent of respondents felt that social media companies' artificial intelligence could find false information more effectively than humans could. Overall, a quarter of all respondents said that AI was just as successful as humans at finding false information, whilst 22 percent thought that AI did a worse job than humans. Additionally, over 30 percent of those surveyed reported being unsure.
Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021
Original question: "When it comes to finding false information on their sites, do you think computer programs used by social media companies do..."
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eMarketer, & Pew Research Center. (March 17, 2022). Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 15, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311101/us-adults-opinion-on-ai-for-content-moderation-social-media/
eMarketer, und Pew Research Center. "Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021." Chart. March 17, 2022. Statista. Accessed November 15, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311101/us-adults-opinion-on-ai-for-content-moderation-social-media/
eMarketer, Pew Research Center. (2022). Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 15, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311101/us-adults-opinion-on-ai-for-content-moderation-social-media/
eMarketer, and Pew Research Center. "Opinions of Adults in The United States on The Ability for Social Media-owned Ai to Find False Information More Effectively than Human Moderators as of November 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 17 Mar 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311101/us-adults-opinion-on-ai-for-content-moderation-social-media/
eMarketer & Pew Research Center, Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311101/us-adults-opinion-on-ai-for-content-moderation-social-media/ (last visited November 15, 2024)
Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021 [Graph], eMarketer, & Pew Research Center, March 17, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311101/us-adults-opinion-on-ai-for-content-moderation-social-media/
