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Tilting at Windmills

Valerie Parham-Thompson

I read recently that 60% of everything you saw on the internet was AI-generated. And that 90% of everything could be AI-generated by 2026, or maybe 99%, depending on the article.

I’m not linking to any of these, because of course it’s all conjecture on their part. But anecdotally, I see a lot more junk online than I did last year. My husband and I recently read a bunch of reviews on a shopping site together, laughing at how badly they had been generated. And the “how to do this one technical thing” Google results are littered with the same article repeated by bots. I had a good run on Stack Overflow and just stopped one day because it was so depressing realizing that it was being mined for content.