A new study published in Nature and reported by Forbes suggests that 57% of online content is AI-generated. Researchers from Cambridge and Oxford argue that the growing prevalence of AI-generated content and the overreliance on similar sources will likely result in lower-quality responses to queries.
That’s hard to believe—AI has surpassed decades and petabytes of human-made content in just a few years? I suspect their definition of “AI content” might be rather broad.
Yeah, to reach 57%, they must be counting things like each comment on a YouTube video as a separate piece of content, treating it the same as the video produced by a human. Or they might include every Instagram photo with a filter as “AI content.”
57% wouldn’t be an issue if it were actually quality content. That percentage is likely to rise significantly because AI-powered systems can generate “content” at such a rapid pace. Additionally, many people prioritize speed over quality, which means this problem will likely worsen before it improves.
Check out Pinterest now—it’s become an endless stream of low-quality AI-generated images that just replicate themselves. It’s alarming how the site has deteriorated, and it could be a glimpse of what’s to come for the entire internet.
This is so true—it’s almost laughable. I’m always searching the internet for jokes to tell my kid and family (in English, Spanish, and Polish), and about 6 out of 10 pages are AI-generated articles filled with fake, unfunny jokes. They either repeat under different links or make no sense at all. The same goes for tutorials or reviews on anything. It’s creepy.