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candidate · p2026-09-07-012 · not-found

OpenAI's 800 million weekly users

set aside as
NOT FOUND
the researcher's note
OpenAI's 800 million weekly users. The 0.15% and 0.07% figures are verified from OpenAI's own post (Wayback capture, 27 Oct 2025) — but that post contains no user count, so the widely cited ~1.2 million and ~560,000 are press arithmetic. No OpenAI-published page states 800 million; the largest operator-published count is 700 million weekly users, July 2025 (used above). The 800M traces to Altman at DevDay, 6 Oct 2025 — press only.
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. 2026-09-06T10:23:57-04:00 · researchernot-found — OpenAI's 800 million weekly users. The 0.15% and 0.07% figures are verified from OpenAI's own post (Wayback capture, 27 Oct 2025) — but that post contains no user count, so the widely cited ~1.2 million and ~560,000 are press arithmetic. No OpenAI-published page states 800 million; the largest operator-published count is 700 million weekly users, July 2025 (used above). The 800M traces to Altman at DevDay, 6 Oct 2025 — press only.
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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