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What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers


New study breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages.

Average per-user messaging on ChatGPT then largely plateaued until April, when the launch of the o3 and o4-mini models caused another significant usage increase through June. While young people are generally more likely to embrace new technology, it's striking just how much of ChatGPT's user base is made up of our youngest demographic cohort. This was true across all the different occupation types OpenAI looked at, which the company suggests means people are "using ChatGPT as an advisor or research assistant, not just a technology that performs job tasks directly."

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