How do people actually use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT grew from 100 million weekly active users within a few months of its launch to more than 900 million in February 2026, according to OpenAI. With so many people now using AI, questions about its effects, both positive and negative, have taken on greater importance. Those questions are hard to answer without a good understanding of how people actually use these tools and how that use has changed over time. Most behavioral data on AI use is either self-reported, as in our own polls with Ips