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AI slop

AI Tools · first detected 8 Aug 2026 · scored 6 Oct 2026

Trend score

0/100

Opportunity

0/100

Confidence

66%

Trend, 30 days

Why this score

  • −No source shows a clear spike yet
  • −Flat week over week
  • −Already covered heavily (saturation 46%)
  • ·Not scored on arXiv (source unavailable); weights rebalanced
How this score was calculated
ComponentValueWeightPoints
Attention growth0%0.40+0.0
Coverage growth0%0.00+0.0
Cross-source breadth0%0.27+0.0
Acceleration10%0.20+2.1
Freshness0%0.13+0.0
Saturation (subtracted)46%0.25−11.6
Trend score (0–100)0.0

Opportunity = trend 0.0 × (1 − saturation 46%) × stage weight 0.4 × niche relevance 1 = 0.0

Saturation parts: volume 92%, time elevated 0%, mainstream 0%. Spike ratio = mean of the last 3 days ÷ median of days 4–31. A source counts as spiking at ≥ 1.5× and robust z ≥ 2.

SourceSpikeRobust zWeek over weekSpiking
wikipedia0.93×-0.67%no

Full method: methodology. Rising means rising now; it is not a prediction that a topic will go viral.

Signals by source

Wikipedia views

2.7K/day

2026-09-07 → 2026-10-06 · fetched 7 Oct, 12:50 UTC

New arXiv papers

0/day

2026-09-07 → 2026-10-06 · fetched 7 Oct, 11:45 UTC · not used in today's score

Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API · Research data: arXiv (thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability) · Data as of 7 Oct, 12:50 UTC

Licences and terms
  • Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API: CC0 (pageview data)
  • Research data: arXiv (thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability): Metadata CC0

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