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Study estimates about 24% of crawlable web pages contain AI-generated text by August 2026

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A study of more than 5 million crawlable web pages from 2019 to 2026 estimates that about 24% contained AI-generated or AI-edited text in August 2026, up from near zero before 2022.

The authors, posted as arXiv 2610.36631, say the growth rate nearly doubled from 4.6 to 8.1 percentage points per year. Per the report, about four-fifths of the growth came from peripheral pages linked by a few well-connected domains, English pages showed more AI text than other languages, and .gov and .edu pages showed far less than .com.

The authors use a Bayesian model to correct for false positives and false negatives in their detector.

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    Study finds about 24% of crawled web pages contain AI-generated text by August 2026

    AIA study of more than 5 million crawlable web pages from 2019 to 2026 found that about 24% contained AI-generated or AI-edited text in August 2026, up from near zero before 2022. The growth rate rose from 4.6 to 8.1 percentage points per year, and about four-fifths of the growth came from peripheral pages linked by a few well-connected domains. English pages showed more AI text than other languages, and .gov and .edu pages showed far less than .com. The authors used a Bayesian model to correct for detector false positives and false negatives.

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