How much of Lobsters is AI-generated?

13.4%

of sampled content classified AI-generated · 30-day average

As of 2026-10-07, 13.4% of content sampled from Lobsters was classified AI-generated by Dead Internet Monitor (30-day volume-weighted average, across 4,889 classified items).

Sample: 4,889 classified items (cumulative, whole platform). The rate is the 30-day, volume-weighted average — the same figure shown on the dashboard and the per-platform badge.
Versus the internet-wide rate: Dead Internet Monitor's all-source 30-day AI rate is 13.8%. Lobsters runs 1.0× that rate — at or below the internet-wide baseline.
Excluding automated moderation: 13.4% (removes AutoModerator-type posts).
Excluding org-handle syndication: 13.4% (removes verified-org auto-posts).
Dead Internet Index: 9.4.

Communities within Lobsters

The 13 communities tracked on this platform, ranked by 30-day AI rate. Each links to its full evidence record — trend, sample size, and methodology.

lobsters/a11y — 40.0% (2.9× the internet-wide rate)
lobsters/c — 27.3% (2.0× the internet-wide rate)
lobsters/rust — 18.2% (1.3× the internet-wide rate)
lobsters/vibecoding — 14.1%
lobsters/plt — 12.0%
lobsters/linux — 9.7%
lobsters/programming — 9.1%
lobsters/browsers — 7.5%
lobsters/vcs — 3.7%
lobsters/ask — 2.4%
lobsters/practices — 2.0%
lobsters/security — 0.0%
lobsters/hardware — 0.0%

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Other platforms

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How this is measured

Each item collected from Lobsters is classified by an LLM as AI-generated, human, or uncertain. The headline figure is the 30-day, volume-weighted share classified AI-generated — high-volume days count proportionally more. Read the full methodology, explore every community on the dashboard, or pull the underlying data from the open data API (CC BY 4.0).