OpenAI has released data on the number of ChatGPT users struggling with mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts and emotional attachment.
According to the data, 0.15% of ChatGPT's 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 the platform's 800 million weekly active users.
These types of conversations in ChatGPT are "extremely rare," and thus difficult to measure.
Author's summary: OpenAI reports over a million users talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly.