OpenAI Reveals Mental Health Conversations on ChatGPT
OpenAI has released data on the number of ChatGPT users who discuss mental health challenges, including suicidal thoughts.
The company reports that 0.15% of 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 ChatGPT's 800 million weekly active users.
- Hundreds of thousands of users show signs of psychosis or mania in their conversations.
- A similar percentage of users exhibit heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT.
These types of conversations in ChatGPT are extremely rare, and thus difficult to measure.
Author's summary: OpenAI's ChatGPT faces mental health challenges.