Researchers find AI text is making the internet more uniform and weirdly cheerful

THE DECODER / 4/28/2026

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Key Points

  • Researchers analyzed large-scale website data to assess how much AI-generated text is already saturating the internet.
  • The findings suggest the real-world effects of AI text differ from common public expectations.
  • The study highlights that AI crawlers—including Bytespider, Amazonbot, and ClaudeBot—are among the most active on the internet.
  • It also notes that many companies conceal details about their AI crawlers, complicating transparency and measurement.

An analysis by Cloudflare shows that Bytespider, Amazonbot and ClaudeBot are among the most active AI crawlers on the Internet. Many companies conceal their AI crawlers.

A large-scale analysis of websites from the Internet Archive shows just how much AI text already saturates the web. According to the researchers, though, the actual effects look quite different from what the public assumes.

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