DuckDuckGo's founder shows up to argue 21% adoption isn't "everyone using AI" (gabrielweinberg.com)
Gabriel Weinberg's data: 86% of desktop users hit a search engine 10+ times a month; only 21% touch AI chat tools that often. His framing — people consume AI like they eat meat: some embrace, some limit, some avoid.
Simon Willison called the headline a strawman but flagged the Microsoft stat — 30% of the US working-age population using AI 90+ minutes a month — as "impressively" high. Then practitioners split on whether the tools even work.
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