Based on February 2025 data from Semrush, ChatGPT ranks #8 in the world’s most visited websites.
According to Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer, ChatGPT has 400 million weekly users. It plans to hit 1 billion users by the end of 2025.
This is taking into account just chatgpt by itself, not including the hundreds of millions of people who use the ai summary at the top of google who you don’t hear about, you just see your uncle or family member copying and pasting it into the family chat
then you’ve got articles like
I knew AI was coming for my job. I wasn’t prepared for it to come for my heart
So I asked ChatGPT about it. And this damn robot was kind, empathetic, understanding and gentle. It told me, in short, to acknowledge the massive love I had for her, to have some compassion for myself, to write her a letter. It sounds simple, I know, but I was gobsmacked.
I called Jeremy — another robot-avoider — and told him to go to it with a serious problem and tell me how it made him feel. Late that night he obliged, and tapped out a genuine expression of a painful situation he has been dealing with. Sitting at his desk in our Parramatta office, he found himself in tears. Something the robot said was so affecting, and it was so right. He sent it to his best friend and she cried too. Then he sent it to me.
The number, of course, is grossly inflated, since the statistical engines are now embedded in virtually everything, and it’s really difficult to even avoid them.
I.e. If you type something in google, and there’s an AI summary at the top, it 100% counts that as an ‘active use’.
The person in the article needs professional help, please don’t propagate anecdotal sob stories (that may or may not be false) on “Fuck AI”. “Fuck” in “Fuck AI” is not what you think it means.
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users
This is taking into account just chatgpt by itself, not including the hundreds of millions of people who use the ai summary at the top of google who you don’t hear about, you just see your uncle or family member copying and pasting it into the family chat
then you’ve got articles like
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-11/i-knew-ai-coming-my-job-prepared-come-for-my-heart/105243660
When average jane is using AI that’s when you know the tech has crossed over into the mainstream, they sure as hell weren’t using blockchain
The number, of course, is grossly inflated, since the statistical engines are now embedded in virtually everything, and it’s really difficult to even avoid them.
I.e. If you type something in google, and there’s an AI summary at the top, it 100% counts that as an ‘active use’.
The person in the article needs professional help, please don’t propagate anecdotal sob stories (that may or may not be false) on “Fuck AI”. “Fuck” in “Fuck AI” is not what you think it means.