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Mainstream press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #167 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from bbc.com are almost always human-written.
bbc.com has had 50 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 2% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 8%.
AI verdict · all time
2%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 98% Mixed 0% AI 2%
Articles analyzed
50
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
96%
48 articles < 10%
— Distribution
How AI scores spread
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
70 · AI → 30 · mixed →
earlierlatest
30d avg 4% Min 0% Max 79%
Trend ↓ falling
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
What British people really mean when they say 'sorry'
Waymo cars become trapped in Atlanta suburb after glitch
Robert Brovdi, Ukraine's drone commander with Russian oil in his sights
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
bbc.com vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 8%
arxiv.org 7%
news.ycombinator.com 5%
bbc.com YOU 2%
aphyr.com 0%
discuss.ai.google.dev 0%