Study: A third of web pages published since ChatGPT launch show AI authorship signs
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-08-21
A new study by Pew Research indicates that over one-third of web pages published since the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI. Based on an analysis of nearly 500,000 English web pages from the Common Crawl archive, the report confirms the large-scale infiltration of AI-generated content across the web.
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