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entry · p2026-09-07-001 · validated

ChatGPT

By July 2025, 18 billion messages were being sent each week by 700 million users
tech
chatgpt
passes the definition as
a transformer language model fit to text corpora and to human preference data
from
2022-11-30
region
world
domain
knowledge
side
benefit
people
700,000,000 weekly active users (2025-07)
effect
18,000,000,000 messages per week (2025-07) — messages sent to ChatGPT each week, about 10% of the global adult population reached
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:OpenAI
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
OpenAI's own economic-research paper: by July 2025, 700 million weekly users were sending 18 billion messages a week, around 10% of the global adult population.
source
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f142e/economic-research-chatgpt-usage-paper.pdf
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, bot-wall re-run
received
2026-09-06T10:23:57-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-botwall-rerun.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T10:24:14-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 application/pdf)
  2. 2026-09-06T10:24:14-04:00 · sessionseverity — an assistant for 700 million a week: a convenience
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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