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

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Over one-third of webpages published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written by AI, according to a new study from Pew Research released on Thursday. The report corroborates other studies that detail how much of the web’s newer webpages are now either written by or “substantially edited” by AI, the firm says.

It also arrives shortly after internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare reported that bot web traffic had overtaken human web traffic — a milestone that was reached sooner than the company had estimated.

Pew’s data, however, is focused not on who or what is browsing the web, but on what is being browsed. And apparently, much of it is bots reading webpages written by other bots.

To compile the report, Pew said it used the Common Crawlweb archive to collect nearly half a million English-language webpages from the past five or so years, starting a couple...

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