Article by Matt Jancer: “About a year ago, AI began outpacing human writers on the internet. For every one article written by a real-life, blood-bag of a meat puppet, slightly more than one was written by a machine. Don’t get all twisted up about “slightly more than one” article; it’s fractions, my friends.
The news was broken when Graphite published a study showing that AI-written articles surpassed human-written articles by a small margin in November 2024.
“We find that in November 2024, the quantity of AI-generated articles being published on the web surpassed the quantity of human-written articles,” reads the report.
“We observe significant growth in AI-generated articles coinciding with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. After only 12 months, AI-generated articles accounted for nearly half (39%) of articles published. The raw data for this evaluation is available here.”
The authors randomly selected 65,000 English-language articles using Common Crawl. The criteria for the articles reviewed were that they were at least 100 words long and were published between January 2020 and May 2025. To determine whether they were AI-written, the authors used Surfer’s AI detector.
According to the study’s authors, most of these AI-written articles, though, don’t appear in either Google or ChatGPT. “We do not evaluate whether AI-generated articles are viewed in proportion by real users, but we suspect that they are not.” The authors didn’t speculate on why they weren’t, or for what purposes a largely invisible, AI-written article might be created…(More)”.
