In a development that will surprise nobody who senses the rising tide of AI slop, new research indicates that AI content has now overtaken human-written work on the internet. But there's a good-news twist. The slop seems to have plateaued.
Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last year.
