Overview
- Two-thirds of Germans now identify as AI users, with 45% using it several times a week and 12% daily, rising to 55% daily or multiple times weekly among 16–29 year-olds.
- Research is the top use case, with 72% saying they use AI to look up information, while 43% use it to create or improve texts, 38% for ideas and 34% for translation.
- ChatGPT remains the most used tool at 85% reported use, with Google Gemini at 33% and Microsoft Copilot at 26%, followed by DeepL and Meta AI.
- A Bitkom survey reports 42% of users have received false answers and only 57% regularly verify AI outputs.
- An EBU analysis found roughly 45% of responses from popular chatbots contain significant errors, and computer science professor Katharina Zweig cautions against using chatbots as a search substitute.