A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
A Pew Research study indicates that over one-third of webpages published since the launch of ChatGPT show signs of AI authorship. The report suggests a significant shift in web content creation, with .com domains showing much higher rates of AI-generated text than government or educational sites.
Why it matters
This trend signals a fundamental change in the composition of the internet, raising questions about information quality and the future of human-generated content.
Over one-third of webpages published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written by AI, according to a new study from Pew Research released on Thursday. The report corroborates other studies that detail how much of the web’s newer webpages are now either written by or “substantially edited” by AI, the firm says.
It also arrives shortly after internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare reported that bot web traffic had overtaken human web traffic — a milestone that was reached sooner than the company had estimated.
Pew’s data, however, is focused not on who or what is browsing the web, but on what is being browsed. And apparently, much of it is bots reading webpages written by other bots.
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