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Scaling Laws for Wild AI-Generated Web Text

September 29, 2026

Pretraining on the increasing volume of unlabeled, AI-generated web text follows specific scaling laws. Research across 800 models shows that while AI tokens can initially lower loss for data-starved models, the benefit saturates as the proportion of AI-generated content increases.

HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU

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researcherYou can better estimate the impact of synthetic-heavy web crawls on future pretraining runs.

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founderThis helps you evaluate the long-term value of datasets increasingly saturated with AI content.

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investorThis signals shifts in the value of web-scale human data vs. AI-generated content.

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