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Before 
chatgpt launched, ~5% of new web articles were AI-generated. By November 2024 that crossed 50%. By April 2025, 74% of new web pages contained AI-generated content.
What AI industrializes isn't bad content — it's plausible mediocrity. Grammatically correct, structurally coherent, superficially persuasive, and almost indistinguishable from average.
Researchers have already warned that AI-generated survey papers are flooding
arxiv-community — what was once a labor-intensive exercise in critical synthesis has become a low-barrier, high-volume output burying original work.
I wrote about why internet communities struggle to publish quality over quantity and what that means for every platform that doesn't actively resist it: https://hackernoon.com/why-internet-communities-struggle-to-publish-quality-over-quantity
What AI industrializes isn't bad content — it's plausible mediocrity. Grammatically correct, structurally coherent, superficially persuasive, and almost indistinguishable from average.
Researchers have already warned that AI-generated survey papers are flooding
I wrote about why internet communities struggle to publish quality over quantity and what that means for every platform that doesn't actively resist it: https://hackernoon.com/why-internet-communities-struggle-to-publish-quality-over-quantity
