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Scale over Preference: The Impact of AI-Generated Content on Online Content Ecology

Chenyi Lei, Fengbin Zhu, Fuli Feng, Han Li, Tianhao Shi, Tian Yang, Wenwu Ou, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Song, Yang Zhang, Yongdong Zhang

AI-generated content creators achieve aggregate engagement comparable to human creators through high-volume production despite user preference for human content.

arxiv:2604.01690 v2 · 2026-04-02 · cs.AI

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C1strongest claim

A prevalent scale-over-preference dynamic, wherein AIGC creators achieve aggregate engagement comparable to HGC creators through high-volume production, despite a marked consumer preference for HGC.

C2weakest assumption

That the observed behaviors and preferences are generalizable beyond the specific platform and dataset, and that the algorithmic moderation is accurately identified without confounding factors.

C3one line summary

AIGC creators match HGC engagement via high-volume production despite consumer preference for HGC, with algorithms moderating the effect.

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[1] Scientific Reports14(1), 10413 (2024) 2024

[2] PNAS nexus4(6), 170 (2025) 2025

[3] Scientific Reports (2026) 2026

[4] Advances in neural information processing systems35, 27730–27744 (2022) 2022

[5] Nature (2026) 2026

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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366b23ddb6c211003e45de51174c263ff27eb7ee4ec5c5b5cfb90c9c504a45f0

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arxiv: 2604.01690 · arxiv_version: 2604.01690v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.01690 · pith_short_12: GZVSHXNWYIIQ · pith_short_16: GZVSHXNWYIIQAPSF · pith_short_8: GZVSHXNW

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