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noodlescbyesterday at 10:01 PM4 repliesview on HN

"A billion people use the ChatGPT"

lol uh source? even if you generously count my dad trying it out once out of curiosity in response to the news or w/e that doesn't seem true.


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famouswafflestoday at 12:29 AM

1. Open AI reported 900M+ weekly active users in February. [0]

2. Consistently ranks as the 5th most visited site. 5B+ visits last month. Only Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram rank higher. [1]

[0] https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/

[1] https://www.semrush.com/trending-websites/global/all

FridgeSealyesterday at 11:34 PM

Let’s not forget to count all the people who use a MS office product at work, and are therefore opted into counting for copilot numbers, which almost _certainly_ counts towards ChatGPT numbers by default!

plausibilityyesterday at 11:22 PM

I’ve been wondering for a while if these ludicrously high numbers are just MAU and count people running 16 free accounts load balanced for more access without paying.

No way 1/7 people globally use ChatGPT?

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