For the first time since its debut in 2022, a large trove of user data from ChatGPT has been made available to researchers, who attempted to answer a straightforward — but contentious and heavily obfuscated — question: What are most people doing with ChatGPT, most of the time?

There are a few major caveats here. OpenAI’s own researchers worked on the paper with Harvard economist David Deming under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research (in other words, the company is comfortable with this paper’s findings). Additionally, the research, which is mostly an attempt to classify and sort a large set of messages, was done substantially by OpenAI’s own models , which both automated the process and, the researchers say, helped preserve user anonymity. “No one looked at the

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