The internet is now mostly written by machines, study finds

• AI now writes the majority of newly published articles online, according to a study from Graphite
• Despite the volume, most AI-generated articles don’t appear in Google search results or ChatGPT answers
• AI-written content seems to have plateaued this year

More new articles online are written by artificial intelligence than by human beings, according to a new study from Graphite. Using Common Crawl data, Graphite found that AI-generated writing had passed the 50% mark of newly published web articles in November of last year. That figure has plateaued in recent months, but it's still a huge change in how content is produced.

The study relied on AI-detection tools applied to 65,000 English-language URLs from the Common Crawl archive, filtering for content with article markup and publication dates from 2020 to 2025. They classified each article as AI-generated or human-written based on whether over 50% of ...