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Comment by cregaleus

4 hours ago

If you include API usage, personal requests are approximately 0% of total usage, rounded to the nearest percentage.

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cess11  3 hours ago

Are you sure about that?

"The share of Technical Help declined from 12% from all usage in July 2024 to around 5% a year later – this may be because the use of LLMs for programming has grown very rapidly through the API (outside of ChatGPT), for AI assistance in code editing and for autonomous programming agents (e.g. Codex)."

Looks like people moving to the API had a rather small effect.

"[T]he three most common ChatGPT conversation topics are Practical Guidance, Writing, and Seeking Information, collectively accounting for nearly 78% of all messages. Computer Programming and Relationships and Personal Reflection account for only 4.2% and 1.9% of messages respectively."

Less than five percent of requests were classified as related to computer programming. Are you really, really sure that like 99% of such requests come from people that are paying for API access?

  • cregaleus  3 hours ago

    gpt-5.1 is a model. It is not an application, like ChatGPT. I didn't say that personal requests were 0% of ChatGPT usage.

    If we are talking about a new model release I want to talk about models, not applications.

    The number of input tokens that OpenAI models are processing accross all delivery methods (OpenAI's own APIs, Azure) dwarf the number of input tokens that are coming from people asking the ChatGPT app for personal advice. It isn't close.

    • cess11  2 hours ago

      How many of those eight hundred million people are mainly API users, according to your sources?

MattRix  3 hours ago

I don't think this is true. ChatGPT has 800 million active weekly users.

  • smokel  2 hours ago

    The source for that being OpenAI itself. Seems a bit unlikely, especially if it intends to mean unique users.

    • MattRix  1 hour ago

      I don't see any reason to think it's that far off. It's incredibly popular. Wikipedia has it listed as the 5th most popular website in the world. The ChatGPT app has had many months where it was the most downloaded app on both major mobile app stores.