ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history

This is nonsense.

If my user base grows instantly because 5 users happen to sign up at the exact same time, then the growth rate of my user base in users per hour is 5/0, or infinite. In users per second, the rate is still infinite, etc.

I guarantee ChatGPT's growth rate was not faster, at any point, than my infite number of users per second. Equal, certainly, but not greater.

There is no such measure as "fastest-growing". It is nonsense peddled by idiots who want to attract eyeballs and sell soap, or else fools who don't understand math.

Fastest to a particular arbitrary milestone, perhaps. But who sets that milestone and what does it mean, really?

If I offer to give away a gold bar to everyone who signs up, I will likely be able to claim that my time to 100 million subscribers was the fastest in history.

Those users will likely remain active right up until they find out there are no gold bars. So what does that growth mean? Nothing, that's what.

I wish humans would stop and think for a minute about what rubbish they are taking in.