OpenAI Says Over a Million People Talk To ChatGPT About Suicide Weekly

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI released new data on Monday illustrating how many of ChatGPT's users are struggling with mental health issues and talking to the AI chatbot about it. 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.

The company says a similar percentage of users show 'heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT,' and that hundreds of thousands of people show signs of psychosis or mania in their weekly conversations with the AI chatbot. OpenAI says these types of conversations in ChatGPT are 'extremely rare,' and thus difficult to measure. That said, the company estimates these issues affect hundreds of thousands of people every week. OpenAI shared the information as part of a broader announcement about its recent efforts to improve how models respond to users with mental health issues. Further reading: Parents Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT's Role In Son's Suicide

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