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Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds

New research from the firm Graphite found that around half of all articles on the internet are AI generated.

futurism.com

Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind of good news. Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve been battening down the hatches amid an absolute deluge of AI slop. But it hasn’t quite drowned us all yet, evidently. The report, published by the SEO firm Graphite, analyzed a random sample of 65,000 English-language articles published between January 2020 and May 2025. Using an AI detector called Surfer, any article that was found to have 50 percent or more of the content written with a large language model was considered AI-generated.

As expected, the analysis showed a rapid spike in AI-generated articles coinciding with the release of ChatGPT, from roughly ten percent in late 2022, to over 40 percent by 2024, before slowing to a more steady climb. Now, for the good news: it looks like the influx of AI articles has hit a plateau. After AI-generated articles hit a peak in November 2024, the share of newly-published AI and human-written content has been hovering around a fifty-fifty split, As of this May, the share of new AI articles is at 52 percent, trading places from just a month ago when human written articles enjoyed a brief majority

 

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So 1/2 the articles are AI generated and it's only accurate 1/3 of the time? It's worse out there than I thought, actually.

Have any of you come across any polls or studies about what % of people trust the info they are getting from ChatGPT and the like?

 

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Let's chat about Agentic Browsers. Has anyone installed Claude's or the new Altra from ChatGPT? I'm curious about the adoption of these and the usage by enough critical mass to show any real value. I've messed around with the Claude one, but I'm just not sure how often I'll use it. It's a nice ad hoc research assistant to call up while you are browsing...but the idea is that by prompting it should just take over and start doing stuff for you.

I haven't installed or used any of these. I did do some reading recently, and it seems there are privacy issues with AI browsers.

The glaring security risks with AI browser agents | TechCrunch

New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity promise to increase user productivity, but they also come with increased security risks.

techcrunch.com

To be most useful, AI browsers like Comet and ChatGPT Atlas ask for a significant level of access, including the ability to view and take action in a user’s email, calendar, and contact list. In TechCrunch’s testing, we’ve found that Comet and ChatGPT Atlas’ agents are moderately useful for simple tasks, especially when given broad access. However, the version of web browsing AI agents available today often struggle with more complicated tasks, and can take a long time to complete them. Using them can feel more like a neat party trick than a meaningful productivity booster. Plus, all that access comes at a cost.

The main concern with AI browser agents is around “prompt injection attacks,” a vulnerability that can be exposed when bad actors hide malicious instructions on a webpage. If an agent analyzes that web page, it can be tricked into executing commands from an attacker. Without sufficient safeguards, these attacks can lead browser agents to unintentionally expose user data, such as their emails or logins, or take malicious actions on behalf of a user, such as making unintended purchases or social media posts.