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AI writing hits a ceiling

AI writing hits a ceiling

Summary

About half of the new online articles are now written mostly by artificial intelligence (AI), but this number has stopped growing and stayed steady for over a year. This means AI has not completely taken over online writing, although AI-written content keeps getting better.

Key Facts

  • AI-generated articles rose quickly after ChatGPT launched in November 2022.
  • Within one year, AI wrote about 36% of new online articles; within two years, close to 48%.
  • Since early 2025, the share of AI-written articles stays near 50%.
  • The data comes from analyzing over 55,000 English webpages published from 2020 to 2026.
  • Three AI-detection tools were used to classify if articles were mostly AI-written.
  • Many articles are a mix of human and AI efforts, making exact counts tricky.
  • Experts warn that if AI content feeds future AI training without fresh human knowledge, quality could suffer.
  • AI-written content is improving and sometimes matches or beats human writing in quality.
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