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I’ve been wondering for a while if these ludicrously high numbers are just MAU and count people running 16 free accounts load balanced for more access without paying.

No way 1/7 people globally use ChatGPT?

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I can believe it. I've seen how popular it is in the general population. You just say something and the computer answers it? No need to learn how to use it? Of course it's popular! And the only well-known one is ChatGPT.

> No way 1/7 people globally use ChatGPT?

Seems at least plausible to me.

Anecdotally: I have 3 coworkers (4 if you include me) out of a dozen who have used it at least twice in the past year.

I was queuing at a return desk a month ago and the employee used an AI to try and help someone who didn't quite know what fitting or some-such that they needed.

Out of my friends, about a quarter of them get some kind of light use out of the various AIs.

If the numbers are based purely on an account count, or IP count (maybe?) I could see it. Lots of people are forced to use it at work.

I have no idea. Doesn't seem implausible to me. Apparently, ≈75% of the world population has internet access now. And if a person has internet access, is it that unlikely that he was successfully targeted by at least one of these idiotic marketing campaigns (turn your photo into a barbie doll or whatever)? 10% sounds plausible to me, more or less. So maybe not really literally a 1B, but doesn't need to be very far from the real numbers, IMO.

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