B
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74% -- share of new web pages with ai generated content for new web pages (Ahrefs analysis) (2025-04)
74% of 900,000 new web pages analyzed by Ahrefs contained AI-generated content.
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74%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-04
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Sample Size
900,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier B
https://slatehq.com/blog/most-content-is-ai-generated-now-thats-not-the-problem ↗
Source Article
AI Generated Content is Not the Problem
The content marketing industry spent two years arguing about whether AI content was "good enough."
While we argued, AI content became the default. And honestly? It's fine. The sky didn't fall.
Here's why that matters and what you should actually be worried about instead.
The numbers are already sett…
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Ahrefs analysis of 900,000 new web pages
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new web pages (Ahrefs analysis): 74% share of new web pages with ai generated content. Source: Ahrefs (2025-04). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-web-pages-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-web-pages-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>74%</strong> -- share of new web pages with ai generated content for new web pages (Ahrefs analysis)<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025-04) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-web-pages-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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