SMRTR TechAug 20, 2026Reddit

A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

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A Pew Research study found that 35% of web pages published since ChatGPT launched in November 2022 show signs of AI authorship. Using nearly half a million archived English-language pages, Pew found .com domains had roughly 10 times more AI-written content than .edu or .gov sites. This finding comes as Cloudflare recently reported that bot web traffic has surpassed human traffic, suggesting the internet is increasingly bots reading content written by other bots.

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