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A tenth of web pages show AI authorship as the web trains its successor

development2026-08-25

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Pew found 10% of web pages show AI authorship, over a third of those created after ChatGPT, with em dashes doubling, as the web becomes its successor's training run, while a Goldman partner warned of cognitive atrophy if reasoning is outsourced since apprenticeship transfers tacit skill.

Reported metric: 10% of pages

Reporting date: 2026-08-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 25, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A third of music submissions are fully synthetic while AI draws under 0.5% of listening

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Welcome to August 25, 2026

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A tenth of web pages show AI authorship as the web trains its successor
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Reporting date: 2026-08-25
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-25-a-tenth-of-the-web-shows-ai-authorship
Claim: Pew found 10% of web pages show AI authorship, over a third of those created after ChatGPT, with em dashes doubling, as the web becomes its successor's training run, while a Goldman partner warned of cognitive atrophy if reasoning is outsourced since apprenticeship transfers tacit skill.
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- Welcome to August 25, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-25-2026
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