OpenAI's Report on Mental Health Conversations with ChatGPT
OpenAI has released data on the number of ChatGPT users who discuss mental health challenges, including suicidal thoughts, 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, which translates to over a million people weekly, given the chatbot's over 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 reports over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly.