> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://adjacent.media/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# One-Third of New Websites Since ChatGPT Are AI-Generated
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/one-third-of-new-websites-since-chatgpt-are-ai-generated/
- Published: 2026-04-28T16:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-28T16:03:00.000Z
- Description: A third of the web’s growth in two and a half years is now machine-made. The internet’s baseline authenticity has degraded in real time—not as a future risk, but as fact. This reshapes SEO incentives, trust signals, and the viability of human-created content discovery.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, AI & ML

Source: [404 Media](https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/?ref=adjacent.media)

A third of the web's growth in two and a half years is now machine-made. The internet's baseline authenticity has degraded in real time—not as a future risk, but as fact. This reshapes SEO incentives, trust signals, and the viability of human-created content discovery. Platforms and advertisers must treat AI-spam as infrastructure they route around, not a marginal problem. The speed of this capture—from zero to 35% in 30 months—means policy and platform design cannot arrest AI-generated content. The economics of automation have already secured the territory.