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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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3.8 billion would be about 50% of the entire world population. I don’t know where you’re getting that number, but that sounds highly unlikely
They probably just asked an LLM and trusted the slop that came out.
Sadly, this is the source of a LOT of claims like this.
That would be my guess as well, especially considering that they did not cite any source for that number
That’s larger than any number I can find for the estimated total number of PCs in the world, lmao
You can access chatgpt for free with your phone. My source wasn't academic and it's probably much less though. It seems half of phones come with an AI these days tbh tho.
Yeah, because of the way they’ve rolled LLMs up into everything, a bunch of people likely use it regularly with meaning to (or wanting to).
Like, Googlemaps is now being “optimized” (ruined) with AI
Does that mean everyone who uses Google Maps to attempt navigation is now counted as an LLM user? Likely so, especially because the LLM companies want/need those numbers to appear large as possible to keep their insane and irrational valuations.
Were you counted as one of those users because you queried Google, and Google automatically fed your query into their LLM?
As another user mentioned, a lot of those “users” are also certainly agents delegating tasks to other LLMs, and the companies present each separate instance of that function as individual users
Agents using agents using agents using agents…
It’s agents all the way down.
I imagine half of it is Deepseek bots distilling it for the next open weight model
Clicked the first thing I saw on Google but it's one of those "statistics" website. Chatgpt does have a billion weekly users though, so the 3.8 monthly users across all LLMs didn't seem far fetched at the time. I'm sometimes not as rigorous as I imagine myself to be. The 50% is from a study from Elon university.
I edited my comment.
.457 by today's estimate, Lotta fuckin people, pun not intended but staying.
Lmao, it’s a good pun, intentional or otherwise