Terrifying! Number of AI-Generated Articles Surpasses Human-Written Ones

The dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) on the internet is becoming increasingly evident. What was once merely a tool has now seen machines taking over one of the largest spaces in the digital world: article writing.

The latest research from Graphite shows that AI-generated articles have risen sharply over the past five years. In January 2020, the proportion of AI-generated articles was only 2.2% of the researched sample. However, by May 2025, the figure had exceeded 51.7%. This means that the majority of articles in that sample are now written by AI, not humans.

This finding indicates a drastic change in the global content production landscape. In a short time, AI has transformed from a minor player into a dominant force in digital publishing.

The study analysed 65,000 English-language URLs from the Common Crawl database. An article is categorised as AI-generated if more than half of its text content is detected as written by an AI system.

Graphite estimates that the tipping point occurred in November 2024. At that time, for the first time, the number of AI-generated articles surpassed those entirely written by humans.

In January 2020, 97.8% of content was still written by humans and only 2.2% came from AI. However, following the explosion in popularity of ChatGPT and other generative models, the surge happened very quickly. By November 2023, or a year after ChatGPT’s public launch, the share of AI-generated articles had already reached 39%.

After that, growth continued until it overtook human content at the end of 2024. In January 2025, AI articles were even recorded at 55.1%.

This phenomenon is a signal that the media industry, digital marketing, blogs, and information sites are increasingly relying on content automation. AI is considered capable of producing writing faster, cheaper, and on a larger scale than human writers.

However, behind this efficiency, major questions arise regarding quality, accuracy, and the authenticity of information. The flood of AI articles risks increasing repetitive content, lacking verification, and triggering the spread of misleading information if not strictly supervised.

For the world of work, this trend also serves as an alarm for professions that depend on routine writing production. Meanwhile, for media companies and digital platforms, AI could become a new weapon to reduce operational costs.