Is the Dead Internet Theory Coming True? New Stanford Research Calculates Exactly How Far We Are—and It’s Alarming

Is the Dead Internet Theory Coming True? New Stanford Research Calculates Exactly How Far We Are—and It’s Alarming

More than a third of websites published now are at least partially AI-generated, says the study.

Artificial Intelligence Creates 35% of New Websites, Does Not Seek Truth, Justice, Beauty, or Love

A team of researchers from Stanford, the Imperial College of London, and the Internet Archive have found that just over a third of websites created since 2022 have been generated by robots: Inspired by the Dead Internet Theory—the idea that much of the internet is now just bots talking back and forth—the team set out to find out how ChatGPT and its competitors had reshaped the internet since 2022. “The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assist…