AI generated articles now outnumbers human written articles on the internet

Here is the link to the study:

https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans

Here is the raw data:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WamFyVahPDtAPFtvly30BG2QjyA-L1KYkO2UEYGKKcg/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

Here is another relevant research paper for the quality of AI generated content:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4453958

For the first time ever, AI generated news articles on the internet have now out numbered those written by humans.

This is real data from a massive study that analyzed 65,000 randomly selected articles across the web.

Here is what they found... Before ChatGPT launched in November 2022, essentially 100% of articles were written by humans.

Then ChatGPT dropped, and AI-generated content, explodes from nearly zero to 39% in just 12 months.

By November 2024, the lines cross. More articles are now created by AI than by humans.

The researchers used advanced AI detection algorithms to classify each article, and they tested their accuracy: only a 4.2% false positive rate and a 0.6% false negative rate, meaning this data is reliable.

But while AI content is flooding the web, a separate study shows that most of it does not actually appear in Google search results or ChatGPT responses.

So we are in this bizarre situation where the majority of new articles are AI-generated, but they are essentially invisible ghosts haunting the internet, existing but not being seen.

This relates directly to the Dead Internet Theory, which argues that most online content is now created by bots and AI rather than real humans.

The theory seemed crazy a few years ago, but this graph proves it is becoming reality.

Notice how the AI generated content growth plateaued in mid-2024, researchers think this is because companies realized AI articles do not perform well in search, so they stopped mass-producing them.

But the damage is done. We have crossed the threshold where synthetic content outnumbers human creativity.

The internet as we knew it is fundamentally changing, and most people have no idea this shift already happened.