As others have mentioned, the headline stat is unsurprising (which is not to say this isn’t a big problem). Here’s another datapoint, the CDC’s stats claim that rates of thoughts, ideation, and attempts at suicide in the US are much higher than the 0.15% that OpenAI is reporting according to this article.
These stats claim 12.3M (out of 335M) people in the US in 2023 thought ‘seriously’ about suicide, presumably enough to tell someone else. That’s over 3.5% of the population, more than 20x higher than people telling ChatGPT. https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html
These stats claim 12.3M (out of 335M) people in the US in 2023 thought ‘seriously’ about suicide, presumably enough to tell someone else. That’s over 3.5% of the population, more than 20x higher than people telling ChatGPT. https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html