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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