58% of American adults have heard of ChatGPT, but only 14% have used it, according to a new Survey from the Pew Research Center. 

14% seems pretty high. 

More deets:  https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majority-of-americans-have-heard-of-chatgpt-but-few-have-tried-it-themselves/

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yeah I don't know a single person that hasn't used it. maybe my grandfather

The only problem is externality pricing.

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Remember that we all live in our echo chamber. Obviously all my tech friends has used it. But other social bubbles may have missed the entire LLM topic completely.

Still, didn’t they have 100m downloads first week? You’d imagine more than 70m Americans had used it by now

Well, it’s also a case that some folks downloaded, prompt it poorly, assume it’s not useful and leave it at that. That’s been another thing I’ve observed.

also the world is a big place, and 100m users could include duplicate accounts (e.g. I have 3)