FuriaHubPew: over a third of pages after ChatGPT show AI authorship
Pew Research finds that more than one-third of English pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch show significant AI authorship. A July 2026 sample of 10,000 pages was about 10% overall because it still included older documents.
On August 20, 2026, TechCrunch reported a Pew Research study finding that over one-third of English-language pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch show significant signs of AI authorship. Pew used the Common Crawl archive and Open Pangram’s detector.
What we know
- In a random July 2026 sample of 10,000 pages, about 10% showed significant AI authorship, including older pre-ChatGPT pages.
- After filtering to pages published after ChatGPT’s launch, the share rose to 35%.
- .com domains showed AI authorship at about 10 times the rate of .edu and .gov, which were around 1%; .org was 4.6%.
- Pew noted that detectors can misclassify pages, but said the directional picture at this scale is likely correct.
Takeaways
- The one-third figure applies to pages after ChatGPT, not the whole web.
- An unfiltered mix of old and new pages looks closer to 10%.
- Commercial .com pages show far more AI writing than .edu, .gov, or .org.
Source: TechCrunch / Pew
