Signs of AI authorship are less common in .edu and .gov domains
% of webpages showing significant signs of AI editing or authorship
Note: Plotted points represent six-month averages.
Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 490,000 English-language webpage texts sampled from the Common Crawl web repository and analyzed using Open Pangram.
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Signs of AI authorship are less common in .edu and .gov domains
% of webpages showing significant signs of AI editing or authorship
| Crawl date | .com | .org | .edu | .gov | n_com | n_org | n_edu | n_gov |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | 1.09 | 0.83 | 0.57 | 0.41 | 29366 | 4850 | 1993 | 445 |
| 2021-07-01 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 0.34 | 0.23 | 23202 | 3828 | 1713 | 407 |
| 2022-01-01 | 1.08 | 0.68 | 0.51 | 0.39 | 11407 | 1924 | 804 | 243 |
| 2022-07-01 | 1.07 | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.25 | 23734 | 4020 | 1756 | 431 |
| 2023-01-01 | 1.63 | 0.9 | 0.56 | 0.34 | 18631 | 3093 | 1238 | 305 |
| 2023-07-01 | 2.76 | 1.89 | 0.28 | 1 | 12047 | 1925 | 703 | 200 |
| 2024-01-01 | 3.76 | 2 | 1.7 | 1.42 | 23739 | 3590 | 1180 | 328 |
| 2024-07-01 | 4.7 | 2.1 | 0.57 | 1.72 | 35976 | 5049 | 1589 | 545 |
| 2025-01-01 | 5.48 | 2.89 | 0.95 | 1.62 | 35766 | 5012 | 1559 | 536 |
| 2025-07-01 | 6.64 | 2.85 | 1.02 | 1.4 | 34971 | 4727 | 1329 | 509 |
| 2026-01-01 | 9.35 | 4.59 | 1.03 | 0.76 | 41116 | 6363 | 1571 | 669 |
Note: Plotted points represent six-month averages.
Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 490,000 English-language webpage texts sampled from the Common Crawl web repository and analyzed using Open Pangram.
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
