A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds
In brief Pew Research analyzed roughly 490,000 English-language webpages via the Common Crawl archive; 10% of a July 2026 snapshot show significant signs of AI authorship. Restricted to pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, that figure jumps to 35%.
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- Fact 1: In brief Pew Research analyzed roughly 490,000 English-language webpages via the Common Crawl archive; 10% of a July 2026 snapshot show significant signs of AI authorship.
- Fact 2: Restricted to pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, that figure jumps to 35%.
- Fact 3: ".com" domains show AI-authorship signs at roughly 10 times the rate of ".edu" or ".gov" domains, and about double the rate of ".org." AI-written content is everywhere, literally.
- Fact 4: One in 10 English-language webpages now shows significant signs of being written by AI, according to a Pew Research Center study published Thursday.
In brief Pew Research analyzed roughly 490,000 English-language webpages via the Common Crawl archive; 10% of a July 2026 snapshot show significant signs of AI authorship. Restricted to pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, that figure jumps to 35%.
".com" domains show AI-authorship signs at roughly 10 times the rate of ".edu" or ".gov" domains, and about double the rate of ".org." AI-written content is everywhere, literally. One in 10 English-language webpages now shows significant signs of being written by AI, according to a Pew Research Center study published Thursday. Narrow that sample to only pages published since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and the share jumps to 35%.
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Original source: Decrypt
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