We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here's what people use it for

> The conversations were made public by ChatGPT users who created shareable links to their chats that were later preserved in the Internet Archive

Based on the articles statistics, the majority of all conversations are not emotional support... however the narrative in this piece is primarily regarding emotional support and anthropomorphic behaviors by ChatGPT.

While outlier behavior makes a good story. It certainly appears statistically from these data that most conversations went off without a hitch.