OpenAI’s research highlights that ChatGPT is no longer a niche tool. Instead, it has entered mainstream workflows across personal and professional settings. The study classifies usage into several broad categories, capturing how individuals interact with the system in both structured and ad hoc ways.

The recent controversy over Grok generating sexualized deepfakes of real people in bikinis has seen the bot blocked in Malaysia and banned in Indonesia.The UK has also threatened to ban X entirely, rather than just Grok,

Talking to ChatGPT instead of typing feels faster, more human and better suited for how people actually think and work.

Riedl found that human-AI collaboration definitely benefits lower-skilled people. They have more room to grow, so their performance can increase much more with help from AI. However, while the chatbots in this study also helped higher-skilled people to a much lesser degree, even a smaller boost in performance kept them ahead of the pack.