35% of New Websites Are AI-Generated by Mid-2025
A recent study published on arXiv (2604.26965) examines the rise of AI-generated and AI-assisted content online from 2022 to 2025. Researchers utilized a representative sample of sites from the Internet Archive alongside an advanced AI text detection tool. Their findings indicate that by mid-2025, approximately 35% of newly created websites will be identified as either AI-generated or AI-assisted, a stark contrast to the absence of such content prior to the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. The research offers statistically significant support for the notion that an increase in AI-generated text is inversely related to both semantic diversity and factual accuracy, reinforcing concerns related to the Dead Internet Theory.
Key facts
- Study published on arXiv with ID 2604.26965
- Analyzed websites from 2022 to 2025 using Internet Archive
- Applied state-of-the-art AI text detector
- 35% of new websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted by mid-2025
- Zero AI-generated websites before ChatGPT launch in late 2022
- Increase in AI text correlates with lower semantic diversity
- Increase in AI text correlates with lower factual accuracy
- Findings support Dead Internet Theory concerns
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- arXiv
- Internet Archive