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Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT's launch

A Pew Research Center analysis of nearly half a million English-language web pages found that more than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI-generated text, with commercial .com sites ten times more likely to contain AI content than .edu or .gov domains.

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The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages for AI-generated content. More than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of machine-written text, and commercial .com sites are ten times more likely to contain AI content than .edu or .gov domains.

The article Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT's launch appeared first on The Decoder.

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