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Okay, hear me out: How much of that is a function of ChatGPT and how much of that is a function of... gestures at everything else
MOSTLY joking. But had a good talk with my primary care doctor at the bar the other week (only kinda awkward) about how she and her team have had to restructure the questions they use to check for depression and the like because... fucking EVERYONE is depressed and stressed out but for reasons that we "understand".
I mean… it’s been a rough few years
So they want to play the strategy that they are relevant
In other news, a million people use openai???
Over 400 million people use ChatGPT. Likely more use openai
Apparently, "suicide" is also a disproportionally common search term on Bing as opposed to other search engines. What does that say about Microsoft?
That they have a short term user base?
Not very informative. I want to know what percentage is the us and if it increased in the last year.
as long as prompts are cheaper than therapy …
Globally?
So a 1 in 8,200 kind of thing?
The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users in a given week have “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users, that translates to more than a million people a week.
