More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, according to OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot. Since its public launch in late 2022, the company promoted the artificial intelligence chatbot as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks. The Post analyzed a collection of

(I linked to the Yahoo version of the article because it’s not paywalled. Original WaPo article is here.)

Since its public launch in late 2022, [OpenAI] promoted [ChatGPT] as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks.

  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    so it’s likely that many of these chats were not deliberately shared, and therefore should included productivity-related ones as well.

    That still relies on the assumption that people chose to share their productivity-related chats as often as others.

    • INeedANewUserName@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      They were being shared by default at first and had to opt out of sharing when many were archived. Unsure if it was true of these particular ones though.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        You always had to click the share button. What they changed is if they show up on Google.