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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

A third of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

TL;DR

  • Over one-third of web pages published after ChatGPT's release show signs of AI authorship.
  • The study analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages using Common Crawl and Open Pangram's technology.
  • .com domains showed AI authorship at approximately 10 times the rate of .edu or .gov domains.
  • .org domains had a 4.6% rate of AI authorship.
  • Other indicators of AI authorship, such as specific punctuation and phrasing, have also increased.