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Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

Researchers at Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive found that 35% of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated—a near-total transformation from zero baseline before ChatGPT's November 2022 launch.

Monday, April 27, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: 404 MediaBY sys://pipeline

Researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive found that approximately 35% of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated or AI-assisted. The research paper "The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet" documents a dramatic shift from zero AI content before ChatGPT's November 2022 launch.

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Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models

A security researcher poisoned multiple search-backed LLMs with fabricated Wikipedia and website entries about a fake 2025 championship, demonstrating trivial RAG-layer exploitation that exposes how easily AI systems fail to verify source credibility.