How lakhs of ChatGPT users exhibit suicidal thoughts week after week

More than a million users of ChatGPT exhibit signs of mental health distress or emergencies, including suicidal thoughts, according to OpenAI’s estimates. Around 0.07 per cent of the chatbot users active in a given week, about 560,000 people of the total 800,000,000 weekly users, exhibit ‘possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania’

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