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# AI wrote more than half of new online articles in 6 of the 7 months to May 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-generated-web-content-share/
- Published: 2026-10-19T14:39:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:59.000Z
- Description: Graphite found that AI-generated articles made up more than half of newly published online content in 6 of the 7 months from November 2024 to May 2025.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Adoption, Generative AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-adoption, #topic-generative-ai

51.7%

▲ 49.6 pts since Jan 2020

share of new online articles that were AI-generated in May 2025, per Graphite (peak: 55.1% in Jan 2025)

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## What the chart shows

Graphite, an SEO company, classified a sample of newly published online articles as AI-generated or human-written. The AI-generated share rose from about 2% in January 2020 to more than 50% in November 2024.

It stayed above half in 6 of the 7 months from November 2024 to May 2025, peaking at 55.1% in January 2025 and dipping to 47.3% in April. In May 2025 it stood at 51.7%.

## Key numbers

| Measure                       | Value |
| ----------------------------- | ----- |
| AI-generated, May 2025        | 51.7% |
| AI-generated, Jan 2025 (peak) | 55.1% |
| AI-generated, Apr 2025        | 47.3% |
| AI-generated, Jan 2020        | 2.2%  |

## How to read it

- Graphite’s classification relies on an AI-content detector, which can misclassify some articles.
- The data covers newly published articles in Graphite’s sample, not all content on the web.

**Source:** [Graphite.io](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#graphite-ai-content), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.1.17: *AI-generated content vs. human content*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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