OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch

OpenAI's ChatGPT Mental Health Data

OpenAI has released data on the number of ChatGPT users who discuss mental health challenges with the AI chatbot.

According to the data, 0.15% of ChatGPT's active users in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.

This translates to over a million people a week, given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users.

These types of conversations in ChatGPT are extremely rare, and thus difficult to measure.

Author's summary: OpenAI's ChatGPT faces mental health challenges from over a million users weekly.

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TechCrunch TechCrunch — 2025-10-27

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