Platform Choice, Trust, and Privacy in the Consumer AI Assistant Market
arXiv:2607.15134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how a representative sample of United States adult AI-assistant users (n=1,999; June 2026) choose among platforms, allocate tasks across them, evaluate provider trustworthiness, and value data-handling features. Estimates are weighted to the AI-user population using external adoption benchmarks. Four patterns emerge. The market is concentrated but internally differentiated: ChatGPT is the primary assistant for 58% of users and Gemini for 2
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Published: 17 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Privacy
Retrieved: 17 July 2026
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