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.

Most people don't think about it, but soon, the vast majority of the internet will be AI-generated or AI-assisted (and it will be used to train LLMs that will output more AI text). We still don't know the individual and collective practical implications of this.

Full paper: ai-on-the-internet.gith…