OpenAI's ChatGPT Mental Health Data
OpenAI has released data on the number of ChatGPT users who face mental health challenges and discuss them with the AI chatbot.
According to the data, 0.15% of ChatGPT's active users in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.
This translates to over a million people a week, given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users.
- A similar percentage of users show heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT.
- Hundreds of thousands of people show signs of psychosis or mania in their weekly conversations with the AI chatbot.
These types of conversations in ChatGPT are extremely rare, and thus difficult to measure.
Author's summary: OpenAI's ChatGPT faces mental health challenges from over a million users weekly.