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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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Stanford University -led study tracked large language model (LLM) adoption across industries from January 2022 to September 2024 .

18 percent of financial consumer complaints (including 30 percent of all complaints from Arkansas ), 24 percent of corporate press releases, up to 15 percent of job postings, and 14 percent of UN press releases showed signs of AI assistance during that period of time.

Urban areas showed higher adoption overall ( 18.2 percent versus 10.9 percent in rural areas), regions with lower educational attainment used AI writing tools more frequently.