AI RESEARCH
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.26965v1 Announce Type: cross The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments (sometimes subsumed under the Dead Internet Theory). What has hindered answering these questions is that it has not been understood just how much of the internet is actually AI-generated or AI-edited.