AI-Generated Content Surpasses Human-Written Articles Online, But Growth Plateaus
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More than half of new content is AI-generated now, report finds
You aren't imagining it: There is more AI slop on the internet. In fact, half of the articles you're coming across are AI-generated according to SEO firm Graphite, which found that over half of the written content on the internet is produced by AI. Also: Is art dead? What Sora 2 means for your
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Slop Central: More Than 50% of Articles Online Are Now AI-Generated
Emily is an experienced reporter who covers cutting-edge tech, from AI and EVs to brain implants. She stays grounded by hiking and playing guitar. The number of AI-generated articles on the web has skyrocketed since the launch of ChatGPT, surpassing the amount of human-generated work. The number
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Exclusive: The web is still mostly written by humans, study finds
The big picture: A 2022 report from Europol estimated that 90% of online content would be generated by AI by 2026. * According to Graphite's analysis of 65,000 URLs that were posted online between 2020 and 2025, the percentage of AI-generated articles rose sharply after ChatGPT's launch in
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Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds
Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we've been battening down the hatches amid an absolute deluge of AI slop. But
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AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now
In a development that will surprise nobody who senses the rising tide of AI slop, new research indicates that AI content has now overtaken human-written work on the internet. But there's a good-news twist: The slop seems to have plateaued. Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white
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AI articles surpass human written articles on the internet
Ever since ChatGPT was unleashed on the world in 2022, people have been using GenAI a lot more. Mostly, we see viral posts of image generation, videos that make Hollywood "obsolete" and all that jazz, but there's plenty of AI writing dominating the internet, too. As of November 2024, AI articles
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A new study reveals that AI-generated content now accounts for over 50% of new articles on the internet. However, the growth of AI content appears to have stabilized, possibly due to search engines favoring human-written material.
The Rise of AI-Generated Content
A recent study by SEO firm Graphite has revealed a significant shift in the online content landscape. According to their analysis of 65,000 URLs published between January 2020 and May 2025, AI-generated articles now account for more than half of the new content on the internet
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.The study found that AI-generated articles slightly overtook human-written articles between November 2024 and March 2025, with AI content peaking at 55% in January 2025
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. This rapid growth can be attributed to the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, which sparked a surge in AI-generated content2
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Source: Axios
Plateau in AI Content Growth
Despite the initial surge, the proportion of AI-generated articles has remained relatively stable over the past 12 months
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. This plateau suggests that the flood of AI-generated content may not continue at its initial pace. Researchers hypothesize that this stabilization is due to the discovery that AI-generated articles do not perform well in search results1
.Search Engines and AI Content
Graphite's research indicates that search engines and AI chatbots seem to favor human-written content. The study found that 86% of articles ranking in Google Search were written by humans, with only 14% generated by AI
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. Similarly, 82% of articles cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity were human-written, compared to 18% AI-generated3
.Challenges in Detecting AI Content
The study's methodology relied on an AI detection tool called Surfer, which classified articles as AI-generated if more than 50% of the content was predicted to come from an AI
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. However, experts caution that definitively distinguishing between AI and human-generated content is becoming increasingly challenging3
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Source: ZDNet
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Impact on Content Creation and Consumption
The rise of AI-generated content has raised concerns about the quality and reliability of information online. A Pew Research Center study found that only 2% of Americans regularly get news from AI, while 75% say they never do
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. Those who do consume AI-generated news report not fully trusting the information they encounter1
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Source: Futurism
The Future of AI and Human Content Creation
As AI tools continue to evolve, the line between AI-generated and human-written content may become increasingly blurred. Stefano Soatto, a professor of computer science at UCLA and VP at Amazon Web Services, describes the current state as "a symbiosis more than a dichotomy"
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. This suggests that the future of content creation may involve a more integrated approach, combining human creativity with AI assistance5
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