OpenAI just released their largest study yet on how people use ChatGPT, analyzing 1.5 million conversations. The findings reveal surprising trends.
Key Insights
- The gender flip — Early 2024: 37% feminine names. Mid-2025: 52%. A complete reversal.
- Global growth — Adoption in low-income countries is growing 4x faster than in high-income ones.
- Everyday use — 75% of usage is practical guidance, information seeking, and writing.
- Work vs life — Only ~30% of conversations are work-related; 70% are personal.
- Advice > tasks — 49% of messages are advice-seeking.
- Coding hype — Programming makes up only a small slice of usage.
- Massive scale — From 1M to 700M users in under 3 years.
At GeekSeller, we’re big fans of AI tools like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We use them with excitement but also with awareness — because while AI is amazing, running it in production still comes with challenges.
