More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, according to OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot. Since its public launch in late 2022, the company promoted the artificial intelligence chatbot as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks. The Post analyzed a collection of

(I linked to the Yahoo version of the article because it’s not paywalled. Original WaPo article is here.)

Since its public launch in late 2022, [OpenAI] promoted [ChatGPT] as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks.

  • Windex007@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The article doesn’t really substantiate thier claim anyways. Data analysis, writing, summarization… even “seeking specific information” all seem like productivity tasks to me.

    It seems to use the 10% of chats which are “abstract conversations” as justification.

    Anyhow, I wholeheartedly agree that the methodology is CLEARLY flawed: there is no reason to expected shared chats are an appropriate representation of ALL chats.

    But, even with the flawed sample, I don’t even think it supports the assertion anyways.