AI-associated writing is spreading very unevenly across the web

By 2026, 9.4% of .com webpages showed significant signs of AI editing or authorship, compared with 1% of .edu and 0.8% of .gov pages.

• Pew Research

May be because, commercial publishers can benefit directly when faster drafting lets them produce more pages, while public institutions often have slower publishing processes and weaker volume incentives.

If producing another page has an immediate economic payoff, that definitely is a great motivation to use a power tool.