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nbcnews.com

Personal blog First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #190 most-AI domain

— What we found

Articles from nbcnews.com are almost always human-written.

nbcnews.com 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 8%.

AI verdict · all time

Reliably human

Lower than most domains we track.

Human 100% Mixed 0% 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”

100%

6 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 1% Min 0% Max 3% Trend ↑ rising

— Sample articles

At three score levels

A snapshot of what nbcnews.com puts on the front page.

Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI

5% AI · article · May 18

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

1% AI · article · May 18

Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known

1% AI · 114 words · Apr 25

Mixed 30–70% AI

No articles in this range.

Most-human ≤ 10% AI

SpaceX successfully launches prototype of Starship rocket

0% AI · 184 words · May 23

U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20

0% AI · 359 words · Apr 16

Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas educational platform

1% AI · 411 words · May 14

— Peer comparison

nbcnews.com vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN

Hacker News average

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