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This starts with a claim that last year over half the content on the internet was created by AI, and links to a source. The source makes no such claim, rather, over half of internet traffic is from bots. Even that claim is suspect, but it’s very different from half of the content on the internet coming from AI.

I stopped reading at that point.



I don't know if over half of the content on the internet was AI-generated but over half of this article definitely was.


You're right. I pasted in the wrong link from my research file. That's my bad. The correct link is this: https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-creat...

I don't think the dead internet theory is something that is particularly novel at this point.

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> Even that claim is suspect, but it’s very different from half of the content on the internet coming from AI.

Agree, from my experience around 70% is generated by bots.


It's much easier to generate and publish vast amounts of slop articles than to make real ones.




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