Dead Internet? A Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated, Says Stanford

In brief By mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch. The confirmed effects are semantic contraction and artificial positivity—not misinformation or stylistic homogeneity, despite what most people believe. At 35% AI prevalence, model collapse risk shifts from a theoretical concern to an empirical one…

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