Hayden Field

The search-engine-indexing feature recently went viral online — if you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets, and more potentially damning scenarios.

More than five million users of ChatGPT around the world submit more than 2.5 billion messages every day, according to a new OpenAI report. As for how they’re using it? In the US, about 20 percent of messages pertain to learning, and 18 percent fall into the “writing and communication” category, for things like drafting emails and marketing copy.