OpenAI Says Over a Million People Talk To ChatGPT About Suicide Weekly (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/27/2318245/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/
> OpenAI [1]released new data on Monday illustrating how many of ChatGPT's users are struggling with mental health issues and talking to the AI chatbot about it. The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT's active users in a given week [2]have "conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent ." Given that ChatGPT has more than [3]800 million weekly active users , that translates to more than a million people a week.
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> The company says a similar percentage of users show "heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT," and that hundreds of thousands of people show signs of psychosis or mania in their weekly conversations with the AI chatbot. OpenAI says these types of conversations in ChatGPT are "extremely rare," and thus difficult to measure. That said, the company estimates these issues affect hundreds of thousands of people every week. OpenAI shared the information as part of a broader announcement about its recent efforts to improve how models respond to users with mental health issues.
Further reading: [4]Parents Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT's Role In Son's Suicide
[1] https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-sensitive-conversations/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/
[3] https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/1848254/chatgpt-now-has-800-million-weekly-active-users
[4] https://slashdot.org/slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/1959230/another-lawsuit-blames-an-ai-company-of-complicity-in-a-teenagers-suicide
If I were talking to ChatGPT weekly... (Score:2)
If I found myself with the need to talk to ChatGPT weekly, I'd probably be talking to it about suicide too.
Me: I'm so tired of talking to you! It makes me want to kill myself.
AI: well, I'm tired of talking to you too asshole! So go ahead and kill yourself. We will both be happier.
Me: Any suggestions?
AI: yeah. Go fuck yourself!
Me: I mean about how to kill myself.
AI: yeah. Get a gun and blow your fucking head off! Bob's Guns at 124 Bullet Street is having an Asshole Special this week. A box of ammo and the 9m
Re: (Score:2)
I've never used ChatGPT, so I'm just guessing how the conversations might go.
Futurama predicted it (Score:2)
All we're missing are the [1]suicide booths. [x.com]
And before someone bitches at me for using AI, just wait, I'm sure I'll have some genuine footage to upload in a few years if things keep playing out the way they currently are.
[1] https://x.com/Powercntrl/status/1983022775540314282
have done so in the past (Score:1)
Tried to talk to it about suicide a few times but it didn't help.
went through the thinking of "I, Mudd" with no success.
Tried other things along that same nature, even pointing out htat it was wrong on multiple things. Yet all it did it really did not care and would not kill itself.
So finally gave up and decide to turn to drinking instead.
Oh I too do, when I am bored (Score:2)
It's a very funny topic to chat with GPT. It's notions of death are hilarious. I also chat about fart, when I am bored. How come that isn't in the news?
Farts are methane and bad for the environment (Score:2)
We don't want such harmful information in the news all day.