Die meisten Menschen nutzen KI selten und dunkle Persönlichkeitsmerkmale sagen voraus, wer sie häufiger nutzt. Studie zeigt, dass KI-Browsing weniger als 1 % der Online-Aktivitäten ausmacht. Bei Schülern, die KI häufiger nutzten, war die Wahrscheinlichkeit etwas höher, dass sie bei Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen, die mit Narzissmus und Psychopathie einhergingen, gute Ergebnisse erzielten.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/21522715251379987

From the linked article:

**Most people rarely use AI, and dark personality traits predict who uses it more**

**Study finds AI browsing makes up less than 1% of online activity**

A new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking has found that while artificial intelligence receives significant public attention, it is used far less frequently in day-to-day online activity than many might assume. Drawing from more than 14 million website visits, researchers found that AI-related browsing made up less than one percent of online activity for most people. The study also indicates that individuals who use AI more often tend to exhibit certain aversive personality traits.

**Students who used AI more often were slightly more likely to score high on personality traits associated with narcissism and psychopathy**. These individuals also tended to have more positive attitudes toward AI in general. There were some weak associations between AI use and demographics, such as income and gender, but age and ethnicity were not significantly related to AI use in this group.

In contrast, the general public sample showed even lower rates of AI use, with an average of just 0.44 percent of website visits being AI-related. Once again, ChatGPT was the most visited AI platform. Fewer significant correlations between personality and AI use were observed in this group, but there was a modest relationship between Machiavellianism and AI browsing. Those who expressed more favorable views of AI were also somewhat more likely to use it.

The researchers paid particular attention to individuals they called “prolific users,” defined as those whose AI browsing accounted for more than 4 percent of their total website visits. Among the student group, these prolific users scored much higher on measures of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy compared to their peers. These patterns were less clear in the general public sample, possibly because AI use was less frequent overall, reducing the ability to detect meaningful differences.

Replace „AI“ with „web“ and change the date to 1998.

Most people don’t have access to a decent AI model, because the free stuff isn’t all that good.

Hm. One person I know who uses it a ton is a straight up narcissist… but I use it a decent amount too :/

I’m a creative. Have a creative degree. Have worked in creative fields. A lot of my colleagues and friends refuse to use it because it bothers them on principle.

The issue is that this means people who could really harness its full potential for productivity are avoiding it, and uncreative psychopaths are reaping all the quick benefits.

I understand hating it because it’s just ripping off human creativity, but I also fear it’s not going anywhere and creatives are just handicapping themselves professionally by hesitating to use it.

Am I missing something? ChatGPT has 78M weekly users in the US and 700M active users worldwide. Are they using some very specific definition of ‚used AI‘?

[ChatGPT Statistics 2025: How Many People Use ChatGPT?](https://backlinko.com/chatgpt-stats)

Edit: I see, they only studied students in UC that agreed to the releasing their browser history and that used Google Chrome.

So if people rarely use AI, why is ChatGPT one of the most visited websites on the internet? Could it be AI using AI to fill the internet with fake content?