Authorship in Flux, Audiences in Seats: A Week of AI Signals and Stage Receipts
Pew found that more than a third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of machine authorship, as traffic to the ten largest US news sites fell by a third in two years. In the same week Google shipped a detector for AI fakes and Harvard closed its writing center, a filmed Hadestown grossed $20.7 million after extending to four weeks, and Ragtime set a Lincoln Center Theater box office record.