More articles are now created by AI than by humans (Graphite)
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Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.
- Commonly cited as
- "Over half of new articles online are AI-generated"
- True origin
- Graphite (SEO agency) — More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2025
- Data as of
- Data to 2025; Graphite has published a revised version with figures 3.3 points lower on average
- Last checked
- What the source says
We find that in November 2024, the quantity of AI-generated articles being published on the web surpassed the quantity of human-written articles. ... However, the proportion of AI-generated articles has plateaued since May 2024.
- Method & sample
- Random sample of English-language article URLs from Common Crawl (published Jan. 2020–May 2025), classified with Surfer's AI detector (AI if over 50% of the text is predicted AI-generated); the detector flagged 4.2% of pre-ChatGPT articles as AI.
- Drift between quote and source
- Method: depends on an AI detector with its own error rate
- Detail: the share plateaued from May 2024
- Interest
- Graphite sells SEO and content services.
Safe rephrasing
Graphite's detector-based analysis found AI-generated articles overtook human-written ones in November 2024, with the share plateauing since; the method depends on an AI-detection tool's accuracy.
Sources we opened
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