What Has ChatGPT Become?

What Has ChatGPT Become?

New research reveals how people are using chatbots, based on a large trove of user data made available to researchers for the first time since ChatGPT's debut in 2022.

The study, conducted by OpenAI's researchers and Harvard economist David Deming under the National Bureau of Economic Research, aimed to answer the question: What are most people doing with ChatGPT most of the time?

Notable caveats include the involvement of OpenAI's own researchers and the use of the company's models to classify and sort messages, which helped preserve user anonymity.

The research was done substantially by OpenAI's own models, which automated the process.

Author's summary: Research reveals ChatGPT usage patterns.

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New York Magazine New York Magazine — 2026-04-09

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