The Dead Internet Theory May Be Coming True, Pew Research Findings Show
Researchers found AI-derived text is most common on .com domains, with em dashes and Oxford commas appearing far more often than in human writing.
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Dead Internet Theory: How AI and Bots Are Taking Over Online Activity
The Dead Internet Theory suggests that the majority of online activity now comes from automated bots and artificial intelligence systems rather than real human users. This concept has gained traction among researchers, online communities, and technology observers who point to strange patterns in how content spreads and how interactions occur across major platforms. A recent Pew Research Center study adds weight to these observations by revealing…
Pew Research Center today published a study that quantifies what many intuited but no one had measured at scale: 35% of the websites published since ChatGPT launched in November 2022 show significant indications of having been written or substantially edited by AI. The data comes from the analysis of about half a million pages in English collected from the Common Crawl archive, using Open Pangram detection technology to identify artificial autho…
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