Over 33% of new .com sites are just ChatGPT vomit, according to Pew Research
It turns out the internet is rapidly transforming into a giant echo chamber for robots. Pew Research just dropped a reality check confirming that human-written content is becoming an endangered species in the digital wild.
Analysts scrutinized nearly half a million pages from the Common Crawl archive using Open Pangram technology to separate human prose from silicon-generated drivel. While an initial broad scan showed a modest 10% of AI-tainted pages, this figure was heavily diluted by legacy content from the pre-chatbot era.
Once the research team filtered out everything predating the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, the true scale of the infestation became clear. Thirty-five percent of all websites launched after that date exhibit clear signatures of AI authorship.
The distribution of this synthetic sludge is far from uniform. Commercial .com domains are effectively the primary dumping ground for machine-generated text, appearing there at a rate 10 times higher than on government .gov portals or educational .edu sites. Even non-profit .org domains show a significantly lower 4.6% contamination rate compared to the relentless output of the commercial sector.
This tidal wave of automated content is fundamentally altering the information landscape. The internet is becoming less of a digital library of human experience and more of a massive, automated feedback loop where robots are writing nonsense for other robots to index, proving that quantity will always be the preferred metric for the modern web economy.
Source: Pew Research
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