thats a lot of c-suites
(or the anti-ai crowd is more vocal than the occasional chatgpt user)
but its also obviously not true that "AI is only popular with AI providers and delusional C-suites.
Company replaces phone support with AI chatbot, then says "Call center interactions dropped 80%! People must really love our AI bot," even though they were given no other choice.
AI features are popular in the sense that people are using it. I think the popularity lessens when asked if people want these features.
My point being that people who visit chatgpt.com/claude.com/etc by their own free will are not the same as people who now have to use AI summaries on Google because they are just showing up there and making the ten blue links harder to find.
Furthermore, where did that number come from? What does "active" mean? What does "user" mean?
https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/
weekly and monthly active users are common industry terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_users
my comment is not in support of google's ai search. or ai in general.
just pushing back on "ai is not popular", because it is obviously popular by any reasonable metric.
I don't think anyone who works in product management at any company in 2026 understands this, so you're not alone.
by any reasonable metric, ai is popular. that doesn't change just because you super-duper hate it.
your insistence that i dont understand something unrelated to the point of my comment is weird.
