Thanks capitalism for doing the stupidest implementation of this technology possible
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This tweet appears to be a gross misrepresentation of the data in this October 2025 report, which was compiled into this graphic
In other words, the tweet is a straight up lie.
The over a billion people that "use AI" have had to have used a standalone AI chat bot application within the past month to have counted as "using AI". Thus, this is not a measurement of those who have used AI, it's a measurement of those who have used a standalone AI chat interface/tool within the past month, active monthly users. Thus, it's not "84% of people have never used AI", it's "84% of people have not used a standalone AI chat interface or tool within the past month". According to the criteria established in the beginning, all of this was not included in the "use AI" stat:
For instance, Gemini is now included in Google search, anyone who has used Google has used AI. But this is not counted in the "Use AI" stat, which is only measuring the use of standalone AI chat interfaces within the past month
Over a billion people using standalone AI tools within the past month is an absolutely massive market and the opposite of what the tweet is implying. If you were to add in all the "passive AI users" that were not included in the stats, billions of people would have used AI in the past month, I'd guess a vast majority of PC and smartphone users, because it's integrated by default into everything, and only a small minority are going to manually turn everything off. AI has already achieved massive market penetration with over a billion active monthly users and billions of passive users. That has already been achieved according to these stats. If that means AI is a bubble or not, I don't know. But the implication that there is a huge amount of untapped growth or that the amount of AI users are small and no one uses the technology, these are both incorrect, based off of incorrect interpretations of statistics.
Being forcibly shown a useless AI box on your search isn't exactly "using AI" either, and if it vanished tomorrow, I would bet more people would be happy than sad about losing the useless clutter that just slows everything down when loading the page.
I've observed the opposite, most people I see google things take the gemini response as-is and don't even click into the first result
Edit: that is, if they don't already actively use an LLM to seek out the answer in the first instance
All of this extra use only means that AI companies are burning absurd amounts of cash propping up even more AI services that people aren't paying for. But in a world with insane investor cash flows and huge support from the government, the AI industry can hobble along for a good amount of time.