OpenAI's ChatGPT User Data Reveals Mental Health Concerns
OpenAI has released data on the number of ChatGPT users struggling with mental health issues, with over a million people discussing suicidal thoughts weekly.
The company reports that 0.15% of active users in a given week have conversations indicating potential suicidal planning or intent, which translates to over a million people given the chatbot's 800 million weekly active users.
- 0.15% of users show explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent
- Hundreds of thousands of people exhibit signs of psychosis or mania in their conversations
- A similar percentage of users display heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT
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.
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