🚨 Hold onto your hats, folks! A groundbreaking study by Graphite has just dropped a bombshell – AI is now the main writer of newly published articles online. That’s right, the robots have taken over, and they’re not slowing down anytime soon.
Now, you might be thinking, “But I don’t see AI-written articles flooding my Google search results or ChatGPT responses.” Well, hold onto your hats again, because that’s exactly the point. Despite the sheer volume of AI-generated content, it’s not exactly making waves in the visibility department. It seems our trusty search engines and AI assistants still have a soft spot for human-written content.
The study, which analyzed 65,000 English-language URLs from the Common Crawl archive, found that AI-generated writing surpassed the 50% mark in November 2022. Since then, it’s been cruising along at that level, with no signs of slowing down. The rise in machine-written content coincides with the public release of ChatGPT late last year, with AI authorship of online articles skyrocketing from virtually nothing to nearly 40% in just a year.
So, what’s driving this AI content boom? Well, media companies, marketers, and clickbait content farms are all jumping on the AI bandwagon, eager to produce written content without breaking the bank. After all, who needs expensive writers when you can have AI models churning out articles in seconds, right?
But here’s the thing – just because AI can write, doesn’t mean it’s writing something worth reading. The content it produces is often dull, repetitive, and, well, pretty darn boring. No wonder Google has been openly deprioritizing AI content in its search algorithm. It seems even the robots know that human writing is where it’s at.
And while the percentage of new articles classified as AI-written has stayed flat since May, it’s clear that publishers are starting to wise up. They’re realizing that full automation might not be the way to go, and they’re recalibrating their use of AI.
So, what does this all mean for the future of online content? Well, it looks like the internet is now a co-authored space between humans and machines. But don’t worry, folks – it’s still the human writing that’s got the star power. After all, who wants to read a bland slurry of words when you can have the real deal?
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