Of course the percentage of people who have ever used a chatbot is going to go up over time.

Yes, and crucially, it never goes down.

It's like asking: "do you use a motor vehicle?" And then counting everyone who has ever been in a car, a truck, a bus, or potentially even a train as a yes. It plainly conflates active users with exploratory or incidental users.

The only reason to do such things is to inflate numbers because being honest about them makes it look bad.

Yup. I used Gemini like a year before it took off back when Google first sent out testing invites, because I wanted to see what it could do. That's very different from active use, but this survey would count me as a regular user.

Although since Google shows me an AI summary whenever I search now, maybe I count as an active one anyways... along with everyone else who uses Google.

It sort of makes sense, though. Google Search has been a hot pile of garbage for years. Researching something simple used to be quick and easy, but now you have to sift through endless SEO trash websites to find half an answer (or use a better search engine).

People go for the path of least resistance.

my bro who ins tech, been laid off since 2023, going through a " late 30s midlife crisis) uses this all the time.

Dumb but efficient people are gonna take over the world now that they have instant access to intelligence. They were already in charge but it's gonna get boring

i'm sure those summaries arent generated every time

Why? I'm not sure what you mean. If you re-run your search with the same terms, you get a different response.