What it is.
Slate scored the pages ranking for 100 bottom-funnel queries across five B2B SaaS categories, discarding a quarter of results that were not articles.
Across the 652 scoreable pages the split came out 44% fully AI and 56% AI-plus-edit. Purely human writing had effectively left the sample.
The edit is what the ranking difference tracks with. In the top three positions 62% are AI-plus-edit; in positions four to ten the edited share drops to 54%.
What you get.
- The scoring base: 652 pages after a quarter were discarded as non-articles
- The overall split, 44% fully AI against 56% AI-plus-edit
- The position effect, with 62% edited in the top three against 54% in positions four to ten
- Category consistency, with the fully-AI share inside a seven-point band from 40.8% to 48.2%
- What it means for a content team competing on these queries
- The scoring method, including what counted as an article
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How were unscoreable pages handled?
Who ran it?
Is human-written content still ranking for bottom-funnel queries?
Which categories are safest for human-only content?
Does editing AI content help it rank?
Does Google penalize AI content?