The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
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By mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted.
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet Jonas Dolezal 1 , Sawood Alam 2 , Mark Graham 2 , Maty Bohacek 3 * 1 Imperial College London 2 Internet Archive 3 Stanford University The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments. We find that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT's launch in late 2022. We al
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