https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/magazine/using-ai-hard-fo...

"Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?" - subheading: "Either way, let’s not be in denial about it."

It's clearly intended as rhetorical hyperbole - like "everyone's on their phone at the movie theater" or "everyone's fed up with AI hype".

If you read the actual transcript it makes it very clear that it's not claiming "Everyone is using AI" almost immediately:

> ChatGPT is the sixth-biggest website on Earth. Something like 43 percent of Americans in the work force use generative A.I.