Gartner's 2026 consumer panel finds half of US adults would actively prefer brands that don't use generative AI. Half. A February 2026 NBER paper finds 90% of surveyed firms report zero productivity impact from AI deployments. An MIT GenAI study tracks 95% of corporate projects at zero ROI. Microsoft's own Copilot has lost 39% of its market share in six months, with users citing distrust of outputs as the leading reason.
The platform-level data is sharper. Wikipedia banned AI-generated articles in March. Stack Overflow lost 78% of new-question volume in twelve months. cURL ended its bug bounty program after AI-generated slop submissions overwhelmed its security team. Google AI Overviews have cut click-through rates by 58% on top-ranked pages, with 58% of all searches now ending in zero clicks. Publisher referral traffic is down 25% on average, 33% globally on news.
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