An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
404 Media Matthew Gault
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Discussion
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@damonberes.com
Damon Beres
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“Aggressively positive” is indeed exactly how I'm sure everyone feels experiencing the internet these days [embedded post]
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@knibbs
Kate Knibbs
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We have lots of anecdotal evidence about what AI does to the internet. Now we're seeing a new wave of research, including a new paper from Stanford and the Internet Archive that puts the number of AI websites at around 35%—and draws some surprising conclusions: www.wired.com/sto…
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@mjgault
Matthew Gault
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AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake
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@jasonkoebler
Jason Koebler
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internet for bots by bots www.404media.co/study-finds- ...
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r/technology
r
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Study finds a third of new websites are AI-generated
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@rani
Rani Molla
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The future is now: 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted last year, up from zero before ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 www.404media.co/study-finds- ...
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
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The Slopocalypse
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@aisafetymemes
@aisafetymemes
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Dead Internet Theory update: 1 in 3 websites are now AI-generated Up from ~0 in just ***3 years*** And this is as of mid-2025 - nearly a year ago AIs sucked at coding back then - it could be over 50% now! Soon: 99% “I find the sheer speed of the AI takeover of the web [image]
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@rmconservative
Daniel Horowitz
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The implication is that it will increasingly train itself on its own recycled slop.
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@luizajarovsky
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD
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🚨 The authors found that, by mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted (up from zero before ChatGPT's launch). Interesting paper on the impact of AI-generated text on the internet, relying on data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. [imag…
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@nosilverv
@nosilverv
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This is EXTREMELY cool and — for people that are tracking my shit — the frontier: whereas before I was tracking mass-produced political language and the effects of that on private reasoning and public discourse the frontier has now moved to mass-produced LLM language
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@pangramlabs
@pangramlabs
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We collaborated with researchers at Stanford, Imperial College, and the Internet Archive to investigate public perception of AI's prevalence on the internet. In 2025, 35% of newly published websites on the open internet were AI-generated or AI-assisted. Internet users are [image]