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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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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