"The share of articles on the internet written by AI has rapidly grown since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022. A year after its release, AI-generated articles accounted for 39% of published articles on the internet, according to Graphite. Despite their ubiquity, Graphite writes that these AI-generated articles aren't appearing in Google and ChatGPT. However, AI's rapid improvement may make it more difficult to detect whether content is AI-generated, even as AI content detectors improve at a similar rate."
"However, the proportion of AI-generated articles has remained "relatively stable," according to Graphite. The researchers don't see the disproportionate flood of AI-generated articles continuing. "We hypothesize that this is because practitioners found that AI-generated articles do not perform well in search, as shown in a separate study," Graphite said in its post. Perhaps the AI Google and other search engines are using is trained to spot and avoid AI-generated articles. How ironic."
An SEO firm analysis found over half of online written content is produced by AI, with AI-generated articles briefly surpassing human-written pieces and peaking at 55% in January 2025. The overall share stabilized between November 2024 and March 2025, indicating a plateau rather than continuous exponential growth. Practitioners may be reducing AI publishing because AI-generated articles do not perform well in search results, and search engines may be trained to de-emphasize AI content. Rapid improvements in AI will make detection more difficult even as detectors also advance.
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