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People Say They Don’t Use AI

But they do. We all do.

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Burk
Nov 03, 2025
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Many people comment under my AI-related posts that they don’t use AI.

They hate AI. They don’t want to take part in this new “thing”. It’s mostly negative.

But of course, they do use AI. We all do. We just don’t realize it.


Invisible AI

AI isn’t just ChatGPT or Gemini, Perplexity or Midjourney.

It’s not the talking robot or the tool that fetches your emails.

Sure, this is all powered by AI. But those are the obvious ones.

It’s the invisible AI tools quietly that are behind everything we already do. It’s so deeply baked into our modern digital life that “not using AI” is basically impossible unless you live entirely offline, and even then, your electricity bill is probably optimized by AI or will be pretty soon.

Let’s look at where AI hides in plain sight.

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