{
  "id": 10978,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15134",
  "title": "Platform Choice, Trust, and Privacy in the Consumer AI Assistant Market",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Jennifer Zou",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": "openai,google",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-17T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-17T05:10:53.887Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10978",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15134",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}