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  "id": "more-ai-generated-articles-than-human-graphite",
  "slug": "more-ai-generated-articles-than-human-graphite",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/more-ai-generated-articles-than-human-graphite/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/more-ai-generated-articles-than-human-graphite.json",
  "claim": "More articles are now created by AI than by humans (Graphite)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Over half of new articles online are AI-generated\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Graphite (SEO agency)",
    "title": "More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "We find that in November 2024, the quantity of AI-generated articles being published on the web surpassed the quantity of human-written articles. ... However, the proportion of AI-generated articles has plateaued since May 2024.",
  "method": "Random sample of English-language article URLs from Common Crawl (published Jan. 2020–May 2025), classified with Surfer's AI detector (AI if over 50% of the text is predicted AI-generated); the detector flagged 4.2% of pre-ChatGPT articles as AI.",
  "drift": [
    "Method: depends on an AI detector with its own error rate",
    "Detail: the share plateaued from May 2024"
  ],
  "interest": "Graphite sells SEO and content services.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Graphite's detector-based analysis found AI-generated articles overtook human-written ones in November 2024, with the share plateauing since; the method depends on an AI-detection tool's accuracy.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Graphite — More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans",
      "url": "https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Data to 2025; Graphite has published a revised version with figures 3.3 points lower on average",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}