If you look at ChatGPT search volume, you can see massive dips during the summer when school is out:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Which suggests that the most common use is as a tutor / cheating on homework.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Which suggests that the most common use is as a tutor / cheating on homework.
The troughs in that graph are all during prime US school/college vacation times: Summer, Winter, and Spring breaks. And then magnitude of the fall corresponds to how long the breaks typically are. To me, that makes a lot of sense.
Most of those kids will continue to use it as they graduate, having embedded it in their workflow (unfortunately many will probably fully outsource all thinking to it, having learned a lot less since it did it all for them).