New Survey Shows What Most People Think of AI and AI Generated Content

The researchers from Rutgers University conducted a study to find out people’s view of AI and AI-created content in their daily lives. The analysis found that most Americans have mixed feelings about AI so the researchers wanted to understand the opinion of people on AI in their everyday life. It was found that 47% of Americans trust AI to benefit the public as compared to 39% who said the same about social media and 42% who said the same about Congress. 52% of men and 43% of women trust AI and younger adults between the ages of 25 and 44 trust AI the most (55%). Urban residents (53%) trust AI more than people living in rural areas (38%).

The research also tried to understand how much people trust businesses who are using AI and it was found that 50% trust businesses to use AI responsibly. This trust was seen the highest among people with graduate degrees and who are earning more than $100K (65%). 53% of the people living in urban areas trust businesses who are using AI as compared to 42% of people from rural areas. 48% of the respondents also trust news generated by AI while 62% trust mainstream journalists, showing that people trust human journalists over AI generated news.

Young adults said that they are more confident in recognizing AI generated content, with 13% of overall respondents saying that while 30% feel only somewhat confident. 26% also said that they are very familiar with AI as compared to 63% who do not feel very familiar with it. Men, young adults and educated people are the most familiar with AI. When respondents were asked to take an assessment on their knowledge for AI, the average score was 3.3 out of 8 with people with higher education getting the highest scores.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World

36% of Jobs Use AI for 25% Tasks, 57% Augment Work, 43% Automate, Software Leads at 37.2%

The Anthropic Economic Index which was released this week provides detailed analysis about industries that have been using AI by using the data from Claude. The report also talks about that AI isn't going to replace majority of jobs anytime soon but it is changing how we work in workplaces by providing help in areas like technical writing, software developer and business analysis and 36% of the jobs have been using AI for at least a quarter of their tasks. The report focuses on finding real world usage of AI and its adoption instead of using predictions and surveys by analyzing four million conversations of users with Claude.

The findings of the analysis shows that 57% of the AI usage is augmented which helps AI in tasks like polishing ideas, brainstorming and checking accuracy of works. On the other hand, 43% of AI usage is direct automation in which AI handles tasks with minimal human help. This shows that businesses are using augmentation as well as automation to do their tasks. It was also found that AI isn't replacing the jobs entirely, it is just being used for assistance in specific tasks. 4% of the jobs are using AI for 75% of their tasks which shows that AI can be helpful in certain roles. 36% of the jobs are using AI for 25% of the tasks which tells that people are slowly integrating AI to become a part of their jobs.

The report also shows in which fields AI adoption is strongest, with fields kike media, tech and business being at the top. The analyzed conversations with Claude shows that software development is the leading field with AI interactions (37.2%) and people are using it for tasks like modifying software, debugging codes and troubleshooting networks. 10.3% of the analyzed conversations were about creative and editorial roles where people are using AI for researching, drafting text and generating ideas. AI adoption was found to be lower in jobs with physical labor like transportation, healthcare and agriculture. Only 0.1% of the conversations involved fishing, farming and forestry tasks. This shows that most people are using AI in text based and analytical tasks while it is not being helpful to people in physical work and complex human interactions.

An interesting thing from the report was that AI adoption doesn't follow a certain wage pattern, and it is higher in mid to high salary ranges. The report says that AI usage is higher in the upper quartile of wages mostly in software roles, but is lower in very high wage jobs like physicians and very low wage jobs like restaurant workers. This shows that AI adoption and usage doesn't depend on highest levels of expertise or wages, rather it depends on how much technical and analytical skills are required for a job. The report offers a helpful guide for business leaders who want to know about AI’s impact and how its adoption will bring a change.

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AI Boosts Productivity But At The Cost of Eroding The Human Mindset

A new research featuring more than 300 knowledge workers is taking center stage as we speak and it’s talking about the use of AI in our daily lives.

The study published at CHI-25 shares more about how professionals from different fields are using generative AI to carry out routine tasks daily. The results prove that while AI does boost productivity, it can erode important cognitive skills.

There is a lot of confidence linked to Generative AI but that means humans are engaging less in critical thinking. Experts don’t feel that’s healthy because high self-esteem only comes with more you think critically. So relying on this technology might be doing your personal self little good.

The research experts call such a dynamic a major shift from producing materials to critical integration. This is where workers are spending much less time making content through scratch but they need to add in more efforts to better refine and verify the outputs generated through AI.

There are many experts out there today and so many AI tools that become such an important part of your life and the working world. As per the research, workers use AI assistants for all things such as writing codes and data analysis and drafting their own emails. They’re now making presentations through such means and about 97% of all those involved reported utilizing ChatGPT. Other tools such as Copilot by Microsoft and Gemini by Google are very popular.

As per the study, there are three main shifts in terms of how a professional engages with work when using AI. Some data gathering is transformed into data verification. Then problem solving switches to response integration and then task execution entails task stewardship.

One of the study’s participants highlights more details about the different challenges with AI including verification difficulties. It takes a lot of time to verify manually and the same goes for users in different professions. They need to keep on cross-referencing AI outputs against authentic sources.

One major factor why professionals rely on AI is limited time. They prefer high speeds over verification. If the tech is helping them save time, there’s nothing better and they don’t need to worry about the final results.

All researchers warned that such behavior patterns might give rise to cognitive atrophy. In other words, it greatly diminishes your mental capabilities when you start to rely more on AI to get the task done. Such a phenomenon is a reflection of concerns from the past about their personal struggles with something.

The research also noted that workers having greater confidence in themselves and their talents could engage with AI more critically. They would use tools to assist with judgments and not replace them entirely. These people were spending more time on evaluations and refinement of content made using AI, especially for tasks needing domain expertise.

So the take-home message from this study by researchers is companies need to create strategies to ensure employees’ critical thinking skills remain intact, with or without using AI. They recommend curating AI tools that market critical engagement instead of simple output acceptance blindly.

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This Billionaire Battle Just Got Personal, Musk vs. Altman Is the AI Drama of the Year!

The battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is heating up. And we’re not just talking about personal remarks this time around.

A group led by Elon Musk offered to pay the nonprofit handling the operations of OpenAI. However, Sam Altman is not interested and even sends out a polite ‘no thank you’ note. If that was not enough, he offered to purchase Twitter after the dismissal.

The news comes just a month after Musk filed a lawsuit against Altman’s OpenAI, in an attempt to block the firm’s transition to a for-profit organization status.

This latest bid might be the final straw as the longstanding tensions between both organizations. Musk wants full control of a company that is thriving at its best during the era of the AI boom. The bid is supported by Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI which could combine with OpenAI after the deal as per a recently published report from the Wall Street Journal. The latter was the first to report Musk’s offer in the past.

Musk was the co-founder of OpenAI but chose to leave the organization before he took off to new heights of success. Instead, he chose to launch his own AI startup dubbed xAI two years back but it failed to get even close to the success of OpenAI.

Altman’s hilarious take on Musk’s offer came in the form of a post published on X. He offered to purchase Twitter for $9.7B if his archrival was interested in the bid. Both individuals are already busy in a continuous lawsuit. We’ve also seen Musk openly blast Altman’s Stargate project after Donald Trump resumed office for a second term. He called the project a waste of time as all investors involved lacked funding potential.

If that was not enough, he spoke about how OpenAI needed to focus more on the likes of being open-sourced and providing safety to users, which was the initial goal of the company. Musk (turned Harry Bōlz) and co got a little too personal after Altman dismissed the offer. They claimed that Altman was a huge scam while sharing the content of the CEO disclosing his meager salary on Capitol Hill.

OpenAI is working hard to transition and maintain its status of being a for-profit company, despite what others have to say. Altman has made it clear that this status is necessary for curating the best AI models today.

The lawsuit rolled out by Elon Musk against Altman claims the founders approached him for funding the company as the goal was to design AI to benefit humanity. Now, things have changed and the company is more focused on generating revenue and profits, more than anything else, Musk adds.

Even without the antitrust implications, a deal that huge would require Elon Musk and his team to raise huge funds. OpenAI stands at a current valuation of $157B in the latest round of funding shared last year in October. This makes it one of the world’s most valuable organizations in the private sector today. Furthermore, we’re seeing more investors such as SoftBank Group enter into serious talks for funding the company that could go up to $40B, which could make it stand at a valuation of $300B including other new funding sources.

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DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: 21% Praise DeepSeek’s Performance, 36% Find ChatGPT More Helpful, But Pricing and Censorship Divide Users

DeepSeek has shaken the world of AI and has gotten 2 million downloads within days of it being released in the US. The number of downloads are telling that the app is doing good, so Appfigures conducted its own study and looked at reviews to see what users are thinking about DeepSeek and if it is a good competition to ChatGPT or not. It was found that users seem somewhat satisfied and happy with both DeepSeek and ChatGPT with 83% and 89% reviews of these apps showing good user experience respectively. This means that DeepSeek is going to grow a lot as the response is good.

In terms of speed and ease of use, 29% of the reviews are saying positive things about DeepSeek while only 23% are saying this about ChatGPT. 21% of the users who have used DeepSeek are also saying good things about app’s performance while 15% of users are saying this about ChatGPT. On the other hand, 36% of the reviews express that ChatGPT is helpful while 31% of the reviews say the same thing about DeepSeek. ChatGPT also leads in creativity (17%) with DeepSeek trailing behind (10%). 9% of reviews on DeepSeek and ChatGPT are also praising both apps for their accuracy.

Some of the biggest drawbacks of DeepSeek told by users in their reviews are its lack of privacy and censorship (37%). Most of the users are aware that it is a Chinese based app so it is going to have some privacy concerns as well as restricted content. The biggest drawback of ChatGPT by users is pricing which is between $20-$200 a month and users conclude them as too expensive. On the other hand, DeepSeek is free to use so 14% of the reviews on DeepSeek say that they have switched from ChatGPT to DeepSeek because of the former's high prices.

9% of all ChatGPT reviews and 21% of its negative reviews were talking about high costs of ChatGPT in January 2024 which jumped up to 14% overall reviews and 30% negative reviews in January 2025. Some other issues people mentioned under DeepSeek’s reviews were trouble logging into the app (20%) and speed complaints (20%). 12% of ChatGPT’s reviews talked about trouble logging in while 10% complained about speed.

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TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook Dominate Downloads; Top 10 Apps Earn $1.1B in January 2025

AppFigures' latest analysis shows the most downloaded apps on Google Play and App Store as well as the apps that earned the highest revenue in January 2025. According to the estimates, TikTok was the most downloaded app on both platforms in January 2025, dethroning Instagram. Even though the US is getting major revenue from TikTok, it ranked fifth in terms of new TikTok downloads in December 2024. Indonesia topped the list with the most TikTok downloads in December 2024. TikTok got $262 million total revenue in January 2025, $221 million from iOS App Store and $50 million from Google Play.

Instagram got 49 million downloads in January 2025, getting most of its downloads from Google Play (42 million). Instagram couldn't get to the top ten in terms of revenue. All the apps in the top ten most downloaded list saw an increase in its downloads. The third most downloaded app on both platforms was Facebook with 39 million downloads. ChatGPT was the most downloaded app on the App Store (10 million) while it was sixth most downloaded app on App Store (21 million).

The top three most downloaded apps on both platforms overall were TikTok (49 million), Instagram (49 million) and Facebook (39 million). Threads was the third most downloaded app on the App Store with 9 million downloads in January 2025. Overall, the total number of downloads from the top ten most downloaded apps reached 337 million downloads which is an increase from December 2024.

TikTok’s revenue dropped 22% from $474 million to $262 million within a month but still managed to be the highest earning app. Despite being banned in the US, TikTok got most of its revenue from Japan, China and the UK. The second highest earning app on both platforms overall was YouTube with $153 million net revenue. Even though TikTok was also the highest earning app on the App Store ($211 million) as well, the highest earning app on Google Play was Google One ($63 million). Disney+ revenue grew 9% to $142 million and it was the third highest earning app in January 2025.

Tinder reached $115 million in January 2025 from $81 million in December 2024 while Max also reached $100 million. The only app which saw a decrease in its revenue was Tencent Video which saw a 21% decline and got $58 million revenue. Overall, the top ten highest earning apps collected $1.1 billion of net revenue in January 2025 from App Store and Google Play.

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Global Internet Users Surpass Offline Population, Reaching 5.56 Billion in 2025

The 2025 Global Digital Report talks about different digital trends, their roles in our lives and how these digital and AI trends are changing users' perceptions of them. The report states that right now the total population of the world is 8.2 billion, with 58.1% urban population. 5.78 billion people in the world are unique mobile phone subscribers which make about 70.5% of the global population. 5.56 billion (67.9%) individuals in the world use the internet, while there are 5.24 billion (63.9%) people in the world who have social media user identities.

The digital world is expanding rapidly and now there are twice as many internet users than people who are offline. The data also shows that even though 5.78 billion people in the world have smartphones, 220 million people among them do not use the internet or do not have internet access. Most of the people are turning to connected devices and services so they can do a lot more activities than they did years ago which shows that people’s digital behaviors are evolving over time. There was a 0.5% increase in unique mobile subscribers in January 2025 (5.78 billion) as compared to October 2024 (5.75 billion).

In some past surveys by GWI, the motivations of people for using the internet had fallen but now they have gotten reversed in 2025, with finding information being the top motivation for people to use the internet, with 62.8% of adults naming it their top reason. 6 in 10 (60.2%) users are also using the internet to stay in touch with their family and friends. Other reasons for using the internet include keeping up to date with news and events (55.0%), watching videos, tv shows or movies (54.7%) and researching how to do things (51.1%).

The report also showed how much time people are spending on using the internet, with a 0.6% increase in Q3 2024 from Q2 2024. Internet users over the ages of 55-64 have increased their use of the internet over the years, while people under age 45 have also increased their time spent on the internet. People between the ages 16-25 are spending the most time on the internet, with average 7 hours 35 minutes spent by females and 7 hours 11 minutes spent by males.

Take a look at the charts below for more insights:

H/T: DataRePortal / Digital 2025 Global Overview Report

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