X overestimates AI adoption: most people's only model is still Siri
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-14
The author argues that people on X greatly underestimate how many devices worldwide run Siri — and how little exposure the average person has to frontier models. The implication: the AI community's assumption that 'everyone uses ChatGPT/Claude' is survivorship bias, and mainstream AI experience is still stuck at the level of phone voice assistants.
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