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niemanlab.org

Personal blog First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #1251 most-AI domain

— What we found

Articles from niemanlab.org are almost always human-written.

niemanlab.org has had 6 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 14%.

AI verdict · all time

Reliably human

Lower than most domains we track.

Human 83% Mixed 17% AI 0%

WEEK ON WEEK flat

MONTH ON MONTH flat

Articles analyzed

all-time on HN

Median AI score

half of articles score higher

“Almost certainly AI”

0 articles > 90%

“Likely human”

83%

5 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

6 articles · 10% buckets

0–1010–2020–3030–4040–5050–6060–7070–8080–9090–100

HUMAN · 0–30%

MIXED · 30–70%

AI · 70–100%

— Trend

AI score by day

Per-day average

70 · AI → 30 · mixed →

earlierlatest

30d avg 3% Min 0% Max 17% Trend ↑ rising

— Sample articles

At three score levels

A snapshot of what niemanlab.org puts on the front page.

Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI

Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

17% AI · 2,940 words · Jul 2

Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely

1% AI · 681 words · Jul 23

The European Union backs Italy’s right to make Meta pay for news

1% AI · 605 words · May 14

Mixed 30–70% AI

No articles in this range.

Most-human ≤ 10% AI

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

0% AI · 2,318 words · May 21

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

0% AI · article · May 27

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

0% AI · 1,410 words · Apr 21

— Peer comparison

niemanlab.org vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN

Hacker News average

14%

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