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Behind the rhetoric of sovereign AI, France is quietly establishing itself as the leading European market for ChatGPT. This dominance of an American technology—far from being accepted without reservation—reveals persistent user mistrust, raising questions about cognitive dependence and the energy footprint of what has now become daily use. Mass adoption, limited trust. While French public discourse tends to promote a strategy of sovereign AI, the country is quietly establishing itself as ChatGPT’s leading European market. This dominance in usage, coupled with persistent… mistrust, reveals a complex dynamic in which generative AI is shifting from the laboratory to an everyday cognitive infrastructure—raising fundamental questions in the process. With 45.2 million monthly visits, France significantly outpaces its European neighbors on ChatGPT: Germany (39.9 M), Spain (39.2 M), the United Kingdom (37.1 M),…