Overview

• Nearly one in four corporate press releases on major U.S. platforms were likely AI-generated, with science and technology releases showing the highest rates by late 2023.
• United Nations English-language press releases rose from about 3% AI involvement in early 2023 to more than 13% by late 2024.
• About 18% of consumer complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2022 to 2024 were likely AI-assisted, with slightly higher usage in areas with lower educational attainment.
• LinkedIn job postings showed roughly 6–10% AI-assisted language overall, with listings from smaller firms peaking closer to 15% and signs of stabilization after late 2023.
• The analysis spans January 2022 through September 2024 and relies on the authors’ detector, which is strongest on large corpora and misses heavily human-edited AI text.