A losing battle
Today I read on AXIOS that 52% of all content published on the internet between 2020 and 2025 was generated by artificial intelligence. Honestly, I thought that number would be even higher.
If you stop to think about it, the difference isn’t that big. You could say it’s basically fifty-fifty. At least for now.
In such a short time, AI-generated texts already make up half of everything produced online. If the pace keeps up, it’s quite likely that within the next three years, 80% of all internet content will have been created by some kind of AI model.
At some point, that’s going to collapse. AI doesn’t actually think; it doesn’t create anything from scratch. Texts are generated based on everything that’s already been written by humans. But if, in the future, more than 80% of online content is AI-generated, it’ll start using its own material as the base for new texts. It’ll be like eating a meal that’s been reheated and re-seasoned thousands of times.
Wikipedia, for example, has already lost about 8% of its traffic since the rise of artificial intelligence, mostly because of those summaries that show up directly in Google’s zero position.
I know there’s no fighting against progress, it’s a losing battle. But little by little, we’re giving up what makes us truly special: our ability to create, think, and reason. And that’s pretty sad.
I won’t be a hypocrite: I use AI a lot, mainly to proofread my texts. But never for creating. The creation, the writing itself, is and always will be 100% my responsibility.
I keep wondering about the future. Will Generation Alpha, and later our grandchildren, still be able to write something without relying on AI? Reading books and practicing writing has never been more urgent.