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IndexAI & Machine LearningNo. 31 rising

Generative AI

AI that generates content

15×
vs its own baseline
14×
year on year
+5.7%
per month, last 90 days
80
confidence / 100
179 3,098 6,018 8,938 where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 56% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

1.56×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

22%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

51%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.69× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

1074 days

Confirmed somewhere else

Independent activity outside Wikipedia. Corroboration raises confidence; it is never required.

1 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or other forms of data. These models learn the underlying patterns and structures of their training data, and use them to generate new data in response to input, which often takes the form of natural language…

Excerpt from Generative AI on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

Near this on the curve

AI & Machine Learning
043

Reasoning model new

AI & Machine Learning · 6k views/mo
+37%
vs baseline
declining
047

Grokipedia new

AI & Machine Learning · 24k views/mo ·1 outside source
-11%
vs baseline
declining