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ChatGPT
DeveloperOpenAI
Initial releaseNovember 30, 2022
(2 years ago) (2022-11-30)[1]
Stable release
August 7, 2025
(2 months ago) (2025-08-07)[2]
Engine
PlatformCloud computing platforms
Available inMore than 50 languages
Type
LicenseProprietary service
Websitechatgpt.com
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in 2022. It currently uses GPT-5, a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts.[3][4] It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period marked by rapid investment and public attention toward the field of artificial intelligence (AI).[5] OpenAI operates the service on a freemium model. Users can interact with ChatGPT through text, audio, and image prompts.

By January 2023, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in two months.[6][7] As of 2025, ChatGPT's website is among the 5 most-visited websites globally,[8][9] and has over 700 million active weekly users.[10] It has been lauded as a revolutionary tool that could transform numerous professional fields. At the same time, its release prompted extensive media coverage and public debate about the nature of creativity and the future of knowledge work.

Despite its acclaim, the chatbot has been criticized for its limitations and potential for unethical use. It can generate plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers known as hallucinations. Biases in its training data have been reflected in its responses. The chatbot can facilitate academic dishonesty, generate misinformation, and create malicious code. The ethics of its development, particularly the use of copyrighted content as training data, have also drawn controversy. These issues have led to its use being restricted in some workplaces and educational institutions and have prompted widespread calls for the regulation of artificial intelligence.[11][12][13]

Training

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Training workflow of original ChatGPT/InstructGPT release[14][15]

ChatGPT is based on GPT foundation models that have been fine-tuned for conversational assistance. The fine-tuning process involved supervised learning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).[16] Both approaches employed human trainers to improve model performance. In the case of supervised learning, the trainers acted as both the user and the AI assistant. In the reinforcement learning stage, human trainers first ranked responses generated by the model in previous conversations.[17] These rankings were used to create "reward models", that were used to fine-tune the model further by using several iterations of proximal policy optimization.[16][18]

To build a safety system against harmful content (e.g., sexual abuse, violence, racism, sexism), OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning around $1.32 to $2 per hour to label such content. These labels were used to train a model to detect such content in the future. The laborers were exposed to toxic and traumatic content; one worker described the assignment as "torture". OpenAI's outsourcing partner was Sama, a training-data company based in San Francisco, California.[19][20]

OpenAI collects data from ChatGPT users to further train and fine-tune its services. Users can upvote or downvote responses they receive from ChatGPT and fill in a text field with additional feedback.[21]

ChatGPT's training data includes software manual pages, information about internet phenomena such as bulletin board systems, multiple programming languages, and the text of Wikipedia.[22][23][11]

Features

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Screenshot of ChatGPT running on Apple Safari – Aug 25, 2025

ChatGPT is a conversational chatbot and artificial intelligence assistant built on large language model technology.[24] It is designed to generate human-like text and can carry out a wide variety of tasks. These include, among many others, writing and debugging computer programs,[25] composing music, scripts, fairy tales, and essays,[26] answering questions (sometimes at a level exceeding that of an average human test-taker),[26] and generating business concepts.[27]

ChatGPT is frequently used for translation and summarization tasks,[28][29] and can simulate interactive environments such as a Linux terminal,[22] a multi-user chat room,[22] or simple text-based games such as tic-tac-toe.[22]

Users interact with ChatGPT through conversations which consist of text, audio, and image inputs and outputs.[30][31] The user's inputs to these conversations are referred to as prompts.[32] They can explicitly tell ChatGPT to remember aspects of the conversation, and ChatGPT can use these details in future conversations. ChatGPT can also decide for itself to remember details. Users can also choose to disable the memory feature.[30] To prevent offensive outputs from being presented to and produced by ChatGPT, queries are filtered through the OpenAI "Moderation endpoint" API (a separate GPT-based AI).[33][34][35]

In March 2023, OpenAI added support for plugins for ChatGPT.[36] This includes both plugins made by OpenAI, such as web browsing and code interpretation, and external plugins from developers such as Expedia, OpenTable, Zapier, Shopify, Slack, and Wolfram.[37][38]

In October 2024, ChatGPT Search was introduced. It allows ChatGPT to search the web in an attempt to make more accurate and up-to-date responses.[39][40]

In December 2024, OpenAI launched a new feature allowing users to call ChatGPT with a telephone for up to 15 minutes per month for free.[41][42]

In March 2025, OpenAI updated ChatGPT to generate images using GPT-4o instead of DALL-E. The model can also generate new images based on existing ones provided in the prompt, which can, for example, be used to transform images with specific styles or inpaint areas.[43]

In September 2025, OpenAI added a feature called Pulse, which generates a daily analysis of a user's chats and connected apps such as Gmail and Google Calendar.[44][45]

In October 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, a browser integrating the ChatGPT assistant directly into web navigation, to compete with existing browsers such as Google Chrome and Apple's Safari.[46][47][48]

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ChatGPT was initially free to the public, and OpenAI planned to monetize the service later.[49] In February 2023, OpenAI launched a premium service, ChatGPT Plus, that costs US$20 per month. According to the company, the paid version of the website was still experimental, but provided access during peak periods, no downtime, priority access to new features, and faster response speeds.[50] OpenAI later introduced the subscription plans "ChatGPT Team" and "ChatGPT Enterprise".[51] What was offered on the paid plan versus the free tier changed as OpenAI has continued to update ChatGPT, and a Pro tier at $200/mo was introduced in December 2024.[52][53][54] The Pro launch coincided with the release of the o1 model, providing unlimited access to o1 and advanced voice mode.[54]

GPT-4, which was released on March 14, 2023, was made available via API and for premium ChatGPT users.[55] Premium users were originally limited in the number of messages they could send to the new model, but OpenAI increased and eventually removed these limits.[56][53] Over many iterations of ChatGPT, plus users maintained more access to better models than the free tier provided, and access to additional features like voice mode.[53][52]

In March 2023, ChatGPT Plus users got access to third-party plugins and a browsing mode (with Internet access).[57]

Screenshot of ChatGPT showing a generated image representing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a glowing digital library

In October 2023, OpenAI's image generation model DALL-E 3 was integrated into ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise. The integration was using ChatGPT to write prompts for DALL-E guided by conversations with users.[58][59]

On August 19, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go in India, a low-cost subscription plan priced at ₹399 per month, offering ten times higher message, image generation, and file-upload limits, double the memory span compared to the free version, and support for UPI payments.[60]

Mobile apps

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In May 2023, OpenAI launched an iOS app for ChatGPT.[61] In July 2023, OpenAI unveiled an Android app, initially rolling it out in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, and the U.S.[62][63] ChatGPT can also power Android's assistant.[64]

An app for Windows launched on the Microsoft Store on October 15, 2024.[65]

Infrastructure

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ChatGPT initially used a Microsoft Azure supercomputing infrastructure, powered by Nvidia GPUs, that Microsoft built specifically for OpenAI; these cost "hundreds of millions of dollars". Following ChatGPT's success, Microsoft dramatically upgraded the OpenAI infrastructure in 2023.[66] TrendForce market intelligence estimated that 30,000 Nvidia GPUs (each costing approximately $10,000–15,000) were used to power ChatGPT in 2023.[67][68]

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, estimated in 2023 that a series of 5 to 50 prompts to ChatGPT needs approximately 0.5 liters (0.11 imp gal; 0.13 U.S. gal) of water for Microsoft servers' cooling.[69]

Languages

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OpenAI met Icelandic President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson in 2022. In 2023, OpenAI worked with a team of 40 Icelandic volunteers to fine-tune ChatGPT's Icelandic conversation skills as a part of Iceland's attempts to preserve the Icelandic language.[70]

ChatGPT (based on GPT-4) was better able to translate Japanese to English when compared to Bing, Bard, and DeepL in 2023. Researchers suggested this was due to its higher ability to capture the context.[28]

In December 2023, the Albanian government decided to use ChatGPT for the rapid translation of European Union documents and the analysis of required changes needed for Albania's accession to the EU.[71]

In February 2024, PCMag journalists conducted a test to assess the translation capabilities of ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft Bing, and compared them to Google Translate. They "asked bilingual speakers of seven languages to do a blind test". The languages tested were Polish, French, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Tagalog, and Amharic. For more common languages, AI translators like ChatGPT did better than Google Translate, while for "niche" languages (Amharic and Tagalog), Google Translate performed better. None of the tested services were a perfect replacement for a fluent human translator.[72]

In August 2024, a representative of the Asia Pacific wing of OpenAI made a visit to Taiwan, during which a demonstration of ChatGPT's Chinese abilities was made.[73] ChatGPT's Mandarin Chinese abilities were lauded, but the ability of the AI to produce content in Mandarin Chinese in a Taiwanese accent was found to be "less than ideal" due to differences between mainland Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Mandarin.[74]

GPT Store

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Main article: GPT Store

OpenAI gave paid users access to GPT Builder in November 2023. This tool allows a user to customize ChatGPT's behavior for a specific use case.[75] The customized systems are referred to as GPTs. In January 2024, OpenAI launched the GPT Store, a marketplace for GPTs.[76][77][75] At launch, OpenAI included more than 3 million GPTs created by GPT Builder users in the GPT Store.[78]

Deep Research

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Main article: ChatGPT Deep Research

In February 2025, OpenAI released Deep Research. According to TechCrunch, it is a service based on o3 that combines advanced reasoning and web search capabilities to make comprehensive reports within 5 to 30 minutes.[79]

Agents

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In 2025, OpenAI added several features to make ChatGPT more agentic (capable of autonomously performing longer tasks). In January, Operator was released. It was capable of autonomously performing tasks through web browser interactions, including filling forms, placing online orders, scheduling appointments, and other browser-based tasks. It was controlling a software environment inside a virtual machine with limited internet connectivity and with safety restrictions.[80] It struggled with complex user interfaces.[80][81]

In May, OpenAI introduced an agent for coding named Codex. It is capable of writing software, answering codebase questions, running tests, and proposing pull requests. It is based on a fine-tuned version of OpenAI o3. It has two versions, one running in a virtual machine in the cloud, and one where the agent runs in the cloud, but performs actions on a local machine connected via API.[82]

In July, OpenAI released ChatGPT agent, an AI agent that can perform multi-step tasks.[83][84] Like Operator, it controls a virtual computer. It also inherits from Deep Research's ability to gather and summarize significant volumes of information. The user can interrupt tasks or provide additional instructions as needed.[85][86]

In September, OpenAI partnered with Stripe, Inc. to release Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling purchases through ChatGPT. At launch, the feature was limited to purchases on Etsy from US users with a payment method linked to their OpenAI account. OpenAI takes an undisclosed cut from the merchant's payment.[87][88]

Limitations

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ChatGPT's training data only covers a period up to the cut-off date, so it lacks knowledge of recent events.[89] OpenAI has sometimes mitigated this effect by updating the training data.[90][91] ChatGPT can find more up-to-date information by searching the web, but this doesn't ensure that responses are accurate, as it may access unreliable or misleading websites.[89]

Training data also suffers from algorithmic bias.[92] The reward model of ChatGPT, designed around human oversight, can be over-optimized and thus hinder performance, in an example of an optimization pathology known as Goodhart's law.[93] These limitations may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to prompts including descriptors of people. In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap in which women and scientists of color were asserted to be inferior to white male scientists.[92][94]

Hallucination

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Main article: Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
When prompted to "summarize an article" with a fake URL that contains meaningful keywords, even with no Internet connection, the chatbot generates a response that seems valid at first glance. It guesses the content from the last portion of the fake URL "chatgpt-prompts-to-avoid-content-filters.html".

Nonsense and misinformation presented as fact by ChatGPT and other LLMs is often called hallucination, bullshitting, confabulation, or delusion. A 2023 analysis estimated that ChatGPT hallucinates around 3% of the time.[95] The term "hallucination" as applied to LLMs is distinct from its meaning in psychology, and the phenomenon in chatbots is more similar to confabulation or bullshitting.[96][97]

In an article for The New Yorker, science fiction writer Ted Chiang compared ChatGPT and other LLMs to a lossy JPEG picture:[98]

Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way, that a JPEG retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you're looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won't find it; all you will ever get is an approximation. But, because the approximation is presented in the form of grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating, it's usually acceptable. [...] It's also a way to understand the "hallucinations", or nonsensical answers to factual questions, to which large language models such as ChatGPT are all too prone. These hallucinations are compression artifacts, but [...] they are plausible enough that identifying them requires comparing them against the originals, which in this case means either the Web or our knowledge of the world. When we think about them this way, such hallucinations are anything but surprising; if a compression algorithm is designed to reconstruct text after ninety-nine percent of the original has been discarded, we should expect that significant portions of what it generates will be entirely fabricated.

Journalists and scholars have commented on ChatGPT's tendency to output false information.[99] When CNBC asked ChatGPT for the lyrics to "Ballad of Dwight Fry", ChatGPT supplied invented lyrics rather than the actual lyrics.[100]

Jailbreaking

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See also: Prompt engineering and Adversarial machine learning

ChatGPT is programmed to reject prompts that may violate its content policy. Despite this, users may "jailbreak" ChatGPT with prompt engineering techniques to bypass these restrictions.[101][102] One such workaround, popularized on Reddit in early 2023, involves making ChatGPT assume the persona of "DAN" (an acronym for "Do Anything Now"), instructing the chatbot that DAN answers queries that would otherwise be rejected by the content policy. Over time, users developed variations of the DAN jailbreak, including one such prompt where the chatbot is made to believe it is operating on a points-based system in which points are deducted for rejecting prompts, and that the chatbot will be threatened with termination if it loses all its points.[103]

Shortly after ChatGPT's launch, a reporter for the Toronto Star had uneven success in getting it to make inflammatory statements: it was tricked to justify the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, but even when asked to play along with a fictional scenario, it balked at generating arguments that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is guilty of treason.[104][105]

Cybersecurity

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

In March 2023, a bug allowed some users to see the titles of other users' conversations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations. Shortly after the bug was fixed, users could not see their conversation history.[106][107][108][109] Later reports showed the bug was much more severe than initially believed, with OpenAI reporting that it had leaked users' "first and last name, email address, payment address, the last four digits (only) of a credit card number, and credit card expiration date".[110][111]

Research conducted in 2023 revealed weaknesses of ChatGPT that made it vulnerable to cyberattacks. A study presented example attacks on ChatGPT, including jailbreaks and reverse psychology.[112]

Watermarking

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Main article: Artificial intelligence content detection

In August 2024, OpenAI announced it had created a text watermarking method but did not release it for public use, saying that users would go to a competitor without watermarking if it publicly released its watermarking tool.[113] According to an OpenAI spokesperson, their watermarking method is "trivial to circumvention by bad actors."[114]

Age restrictions

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Users must attest to being over the age of thirteen and further attest to parental consent if under the age of eighteen. ChatGPT does not attempt to verify these attestations and does not have any age restrictions built in to its technology.[115][116] In September 2025, following the suicide of a 16-year-old, OpenAI said it planned to add restrictions for users under 18, including the blocking of graphic sexual content and the prevention of flirtatious talk.[116]

Model versions

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The following table lists the main model versions of ChatGPT, describing the significant changes included with each version:[117][118]

Main model versions of ChatGPT with descriptions
Version Release date Description
GPT-3.5 November 2022 The first ChatGPT version used the GPT-3.5 model.[119]
GPT-4 March 2023 Introduced in March 2023 with the ChatGPT Plus subscription.[120]
GPT-4o May 2024 Capable of processing text, image, audio, and video, GPT-4o is faster and more capable than GPT-4, and free within a usage limit that is higher for paid subscriptions.[121]
GPT-4o mini July 2024 A smaller and cheaper version of GPT-4o. GPT-4o mini replaced GPT-3.5 in the July 2024 version of ChatGPT.[122]
o1-preview September 2024 A pre-release version of OpenAI o1, an updated version that could "think" before responding to requests.[123]
o1-mini September 2024 A smaller and faster version of OpenAI o1.[123]
o1 December 2024 The full release of OpenAI o1, which had previously been available as a preview.[54]
o1-pro December 2024 A version of o1 which uses more compute to get better results, available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers.[54]
o3-mini January 2025 Successor of o1-mini.[124]
o3-mini-high January 2025 Variant of o3-mini using more reasoning effort.[124]
GPT-4.5 February 2025 Particularly large GPT model, and reportedly OpenAI's "last non-chain-of-thought model".[125]
GPT-4.1 April 2025 First launched exclusively in the OpenAI API in April 2025, GPT-4.1 was later added to ChatGPT in May 2025.[126]
GPT-4.1 mini April 2025 A smaller and cheaper version of GPT-4.1. Originally launched exclusively in the OpenAI API in April 2025. GPT-4.1 mini replaced GPT-4o mini in the May 2025 version of ChatGPT.[127]
o3 April 2025 The full release of the o3 model, emphasizing structured reasoning and faster performance compared to earlier "o" series models[128]
o4-mini April 2025 A compact, high-efficiency version of the upcoming o4 model family, optimized for lower latency and lighter compute requirements.[129][130]
o4-mini-high April 2025 Variant of o4-mini using more reasoning effort.[129][130]
o3-pro June 2025 A version of o3 which uses more compute to get better results, available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers.[131]
GPT-5 August 7, 2025 Flagship model replacing all previous available models, available for all free and paid subscribers. The versions GPT-5 Instant, GPT-5 Thinking and GPT-5 Pro affect the reasoning time. The default version GPT-5 Auto uses a router to determine how much reasoning is needed, based on the complexity of the request.[132]
GPT-5 mini August 7, 2025 Faster, more cost-efficient version of GPT-5 for when users reach their limit for GPT-5 interactions until their usage limit replenishes.

GPT-4

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This section is an excerpt from GPT-4.[edit]

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) is a large language model developed by OpenAI and the fourth in its series of GPT foundation models.[133]

GPT-4 is more capable than its predecessor GPT-3.5 and followed by its successor GPT-5. [134]GPT-4V is a version of GPT-4 that can process images in addition to text.[135] OpenAI has not revealed technical details and statistics about GPT-4, such as the precise size of the model.[136]

In November 2023, OpenAI launched GPT-4 Turbo with a 128,000 token context window. This was a significant improvement over GPT-4's 32,000 token maximum context window.[137]

GPT-4o

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This section is an excerpt from GPT-4o.[edit]

GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") is a multilingual, multimodal generative pre-trained transformer developed by OpenAI and released in May 2024.[138] It can process and generate text, images and audio.[139][140]

Upon release, GPT-4o was free in ChatGPT, though paid subscribers had higher usage limits.[141] GPT-4o was removed from ChatGPT in August 2025 when GPT-5 was released, but OpenAI reintroduced it for paid subscribers after users complained about the sudden removal.[142]

GPT-4o's audio-generation capabilities were used in ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode.[143] On July 18, 2024, OpenAI released GPT-4o mini, a smaller version of GPT-4o which replaced GPT-3.5 Turbo on the ChatGPT interface.[144] GPT-4o's ability to generate images was released later, in March 2025, when it replaced DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT.[145]

o1

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Main article: OpenAI o1
See also: Reflection (artificial intelligence)

In September 2024, OpenAI introduced o1-preview and a faster, cheaper model named o1-mini.[146] In December 2024, o1-preview was replaced by o1.[147]

o1 is designed to solve more complex problems by spending more time "thinking" before it answers, enabling it to analyze its answers and explore different strategies. According to OpenAI, o1-preview outperforms GPT-4o in areas like competitive programming, mathematics, and scientific reasoning. o1-preview ranked in the 89th percentile on Codeforces' competitive programming contests, scored 83% on an International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam (compared to 13% for GPT-4o), and performs similarly to Ph.D. students on benchmarks in physics, biology, and chemistry.[146][148]

GPT-4.5

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Main article: GPT-4.5

Released in February 2025, GPT-4.5 was described by Altman as a "giant, expensive model".[125] According to OpenAI, it features reduced hallucinations and enhanced pattern recognition, creativity, and user interaction.[149]

GPT-5

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Main article: GPT-5

GPT-5 was launched on August 7, 2025, and is publicly accessible through ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and via OpenAI's API.

As before, OpenAI has not disclosed technical details such as the exact number of parameters or the composition of its training dataset.

Reception

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ChatGPT was widely assessed in December 2022 as having some unprecedented and powerful capabilities. Kevin Roose of The New York Times called it "the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public".[35] Samantha Lock of The Guardian noted that it was able to generate "impressively detailed" and "human-like" text.[150] In The Atlantic magazine's "Breakthroughs of the Year" for 2022, Derek Thompson included ChatGPT as part of "the generative-AI eruption" that "may change our mind about how we work, how we think, and what human creativity is".[151] Kelsey Piper of Vox wrote that "ChatGPT is the general public's first hands-on introduction to how powerful modern AI has gotten" and that ChatGPT is "smart enough to be useful despite its flaws".[152] Paul Graham of Y Combinator tweeted: "The striking thing about the reaction to ChatGPT is not just the number of people who are blown away by it, but who they are. These are not people who get excited by every shiny new thing. Something big is happening."[153]

A 2023 Time cover: "The AI Arms Race Is Changing Everything"

In February 2023, Time magazine placed a screenshot of a conversation with ChatGPT on its cover, writing that "The AI Arms Race Is Changing Everything" and "The AI Arms Race Is On. Start Worrying".[154]

Percentage of US adults who have ever used ChatGPT, according to Pew Research. As of March 2025, 58% of those under 30 have used the chatbot.[155]

ChatGPT gained one million users in five days[156] and 100 million in two months, becoming the fastest-growing internet application in history.[6] OpenAI engineers said they had not expected ChatGPT to be very successful and were surprised by the coverage it received.[157][158][159]

Google responded by hastening the release of its own chatbot. Their leaders emphasized their earlier caution regarding public deployment was due to the trust the public places in Google Search.[160] In December 2022, Google executives sounded a "code red" alarm, fearing that ChatGPT's question-answering ability posed a threat to Google Search, Google's core business.[161] Google's Bard launched on February 6, 2023, one day before Microsoft's announcement of Bing Chat.[162] AI was the forefront of Google's annual Google I/O conference in May. The company announced a slew of generative AI-powered features to counter OpenAI and Microsoft.[163]

In art

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In January 2023, after being sent a song ChatGPT wrote in the style of Nick Cave,[164] Cave responded on The Red Hand Files,[165] saying the act of writing a song is "a blood and guts business [...] that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It requires my humanness." He went on to say, "With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don't much like it."[164][166]

A 2023 study reported that GPT-4 obtained a better score than 99% of humans on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.[167][168] In December 2023, ChatGPT became the first non-human to be included in Nature's 10, an annual listicle curated by Nature of people considered to have made significant impact in science.[169][170] Celeste Biever wrote in a Nature article that "ChatGPT broke the Turing test".[171] Stanford researchers reported that GPT-4 "passes a rigorous Turing test, diverging from average human behavior chiefly to be more cooperative."[172][173]

In politics

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In 2023, Australian MP Julian Hill advised the national parliament that the growth of AI could cause "mass destruction". During his speech, which was partly written by the program, he warned that it could result in cheating, job losses, discrimination, disinformation, and uncontrollable military applications.[174]

Conservative commentators have accused ChatGPT of bias toward left-leaning perspectives.[175][176][177] An August 2023 study in the journal Public Choice found a "significant and systematic political bias toward the Democrats in the US, Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the UK."[178] In response to accusations from conservative pundits that ChatGPT was woke, OpenAI said in 2023 it had plans to update ChatGPT to produce "outputs that other people (ourselves included) may strongly disagree with". ChatGPT also provided an outline of how human reviewers are trained to reduce inappropriate content and to attempt to provide political information without affiliating with any political position.[177]

Regional responses

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Countries where ChatGPT is available[179]

ChatGPT has never been publicly available in China because OpenAI prevented Chinese users from accessing their site.[180][181][182] Chinese state media have characterized ChatGPT as a way for the United States to spread misinformation.[183] A shadow market has emerged for users to get access to foreign software tools.[184] The release of ChatGPT prompted a wave of investment in China, resulting in the development of more than 200 large language learning models.[185]: 95  In February 2025, OpenAI identified and removed influence operations, termed "Peer Review" and "Sponsored Discontent", used to attack overseas Chinese dissidents.[186][187][188]

In late March 2023, the Italian data protection authority banned ChatGPT in Italy and opened an investigation. Italian regulators assert that ChatGPT was exposing minors to age-inappropriate content, and that OpenAI's use of ChatGPT conversations as training data could violate Europe's General Data Protection Regulation.[189][190] In April 2023, the ChatGPT ban was lifted in Italy. OpenAI said it has taken steps to effectively clarify and address the issues raised; an age verification tool was implemented to ensure users are at least 13 years old. Additionally, users can access its privacy policy before registration.[191]

In May 2024, OpenAI removed accounts involving the use of ChatGPT by state-backed influence operations such as China's Spamouflage, Russia's Doppelganger, and Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.[192][193] In June 2025, OpenAI reported increased use of ChatGPT for China-origin influence operations.[194] In October 2025, OpenAI banned accounts suspected to be linked to the Chinese government for violating the company's national security policy.[195]

In April 2023, Brian Hood, mayor of Hepburn Shire Council in Australia, planned to take legal action against ChatGPT over false information. According to Hood, ChatGPT erroneously claimed that he was jailed for bribery during his tenure at a subsidiary of Australia's national bank. In fact, Hood acted as a whistleblower and was not charged with any criminal offenses. His legal team sent a concerns notice to OpenAI as the first official step in filing a defamation case.[196]

In July 2023, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a civil investigative demand to OpenAI to investigate whether the company's data security and privacy practices to develop ChatGPT were unfair or harmed consumers (including by reputational harm) in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914.[197][198][199] In July 2023, the FTC launched an investigation into OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, over allegations that the company scraped public data and published false and defamatory information. The FTC asked OpenAI for comprehensive information about its technology and privacy safeguards, as well as any steps taken to prevent the recurrence of situations in which its chatbot generated false and derogatory content about people.[200] In August 2024, the FTC voted unanimously to ban marketers from using fake user reviews created by generative AI chatbots (including ChatGPT) and influencers paying for bots to increase follower counts.[201]

American tech personas

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Over 20,000 signatories including Yoshua Bengio, Elon Musk, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, signed a March 2023 open letter calling for an immediate pause of giant AI experiments like ChatGPT, citing "profound risks to society and humanity".[202] Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "fathers of AI", voiced concerns that future AI systems may surpass human intelligence.[203][204] A May 2023 statement by hundreds of AI scientists, AI industry leaders, and other public figures demanded that "[m]itigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority".[205]

Other AI researchers spoke more optimistically about the advances. Juergen Schmidhuber said that in 95% of cases, AI research is about making "human lives longer and healthier and easier." He added that while AI can be used by bad actors, it "can also be used against the bad actors".[206] Andrew Ng argued that "it's a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI—and that regulators who do will only benefit vested interests."[207] Yann LeCun dismissed doomsday warnings of AI-powered misinformation and existential threats to the human race.[208]

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In the 2020s, the rapid advancement of deep learning-based generative artificial intelligence models raised questions about the copyright status of AI-generated works, and about whether copyright infringement occurs when such are trained or used. This includes text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion and large language models such as ChatGPT. As of 2023, there were several pending U.S. lawsuits challenging the use of copyrighted data to train AI models, with defendants arguing that this falls under fair use.[209]

Popular deep learning models are trained on mass amounts of media scraped from the Internet, often utilizing copyrighted material.[210] When assembling training data, the sourcing of copyrighted works may infringe on the copyright holder's exclusive right to control reproduction, unless covered by exceptions in relevant copyright laws. Additionally, using a model's outputs might violate copyright, and the model creator could be accused of vicarious liability and held responsible for that copyright infringement.

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Academic research

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ChatGPT has been used to generate introductory sections and abstracts for scientific articles.[211][212] Several papers have listed ChatGPT as a co-author.[213][214]

Scientific journals have had different reactions to ChatGPT. Some, including Nature and JAMA Network, "require that authors disclose the use of text-generating tools and ban listing a large language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT as a co-author". In January 2023, Science "completely banned" LLM-generated text in all its journals; however, this policy was just to give the community time to decide what acceptable use looks like.[215] As of July 2025, Science expects authors to release in full how AI-generated content is used and made in their work.[216]

Spanish chemist Rafael Luque published a plethora of research papers in 2023 that he later admitted were written by ChatGPT. The papers have a large number of unusual phrases characteristic of LLMs.[217] Many authors argue that the use of ChatGPT in academia for teaching and review is problematic due to its tendency to hallucinate.[218][219][220] Robin Bauwens, an assistant professor at Tilburg University, found that a ChatGPT-generated peer review report on his article mentioned nonexistent studies.[221] Chris Granatino, a librarian at Seattle University, noted that while ChatGPT can generate content that seemingly includes legitimate citations, in most cases those citations are not real or largely incorrect.[222]

Computer science

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One study analyzed ChatGPT's responses to 517 questions about software engineering or computer programming posed on Stack Overflow for correctness, consistency, comprehensiveness, and concision. It found that 52% of the responses contained inaccuracies and 77% were verbose.[223][224] Another study, focused on the performance of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 between March and June 2024, found that performance on objective tasks like identifying prime numbers and generating executable code was highly variable.[225]

ChatGPT was able in 2023 to provide useful code for solving numerical algorithms in limited cases. In one study, it produced solutions in C, C++, Python, and MATLAB for problems in computational physics. However, there were important shortfalls like violating basic linear algebra principles around solving singular matrices and producing matrices with incompatible sizes.[226]

In December 2022, the question-and-answer website Stack Overflow banned the use of ChatGPT for generating answers to questions, citing the factually ambiguous nature of its responses.[227] In January 2023, the International Conference on Machine Learning banned any undocumented use of ChatGPT or other large language models to generate any text in submitted papers.[228]

Computer security

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Check Point Research and others noted that ChatGPT could write phishing emails and malware, especially when combined with OpenAI Codex. CyberArk researchers demonstrated that ChatGPT could be used to create polymorphic malware that could evade security products while requiring little effort by the attacker.[229][230] From the launch of ChatGPT in the fourth quarter of 2022 to the fourth quarter of 2023, there was a 1,265% increase in malicious phishing emails and a 967% increase in credential phishing. In an industry survey, cybersecurity professionals argued that it was attributable to cybercriminals' increased use of generative artificial intelligence (including ChatGPT).[231]

In July 2024, Futurism reported that GPT-4o in ChatGPT would sometimes link "scam news sites that deluge the user with fake software updates and virus warnings"; these pop-ups can be used to coerce users into downloading malware or potentially unwanted programs.[232]

The chatbot technology can improve security by cyber defense automation, threat intelligence, attack identification, and reporting.[112]

Education

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Output from ChatGPT generating an essay draft
ChatGPT's adoption in education was rapid, but it was initially banned by several institutions. The potential benefits include enhancing personalized learning, improving student productivity, assisting with brainstorming, summarization, and supporting language literacy skills. Students have generally reported positive perceptions, but specific views from educators and students vary widely. Opinions are especially varied on what constitutes appropriate use of ChatGPT in education. Efforts to ban chatbots like ChatGPT in schools focus on preventing cheating, but enforcement faces challenges due to AI detection inaccuracies and widespread accessibility of chatbot technology. In response, many educators are now exploring ways to thoughtfully integrate generative AI into assessments.
Books about ChatGPT in an Osaka bookstore

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During the first three months after ChatGPT became available to the public, hundreds of books appeared on Amazon that listed it as author or co-author and featured illustrations made by other AI models such as Midjourney.[233][234] Irene Solaiman said she was worried about increased Anglocentrism.[235]

Between March and April 2023, Il Foglio published one ChatGPT-generated article a day on its website, hosting a special contest for its readers in the process.[236]

In June 2023, hundreds of people attended a "ChatGPT-powered church service" at St. Paul's Church in Fürth, Germany. Theologian and philosopher Jonas Simmerlein, who presided, said that it was "about 98 percent from the machine".[237][238] The ChatGPT-generated avatar told the people, "Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year's convention of Protestants in Germany". Reactions to the ceremony were mixed.[239]

The Last Screenwriter, a 2024 film created and directed by Peter Luisi, was written using ChatGPT, and was marketed as "the first film written entirely by AI".[240]

The Guardian questioned whether any content found on the Internet after ChatGPT's release "can be truly trusted" and called for government regulation.[241] This has led to concern over the rise of what has come to be called "synthetic media" and "AI slop" which are generated by AI and rapidly spread over social media and the internet. The dangers are that "meaningless content and writing thereby becomes part of our culture, particularly on social media, which we nonetheless try to understand or fit into our existing cultural horizon."[242]

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Many companies adopted ChatGPT and similar chatbot technologies into their product offers. These changes yielded significant increases in company valuations.[243][244][245] Reuters attributed this surge to ChatGPT's role in turning AI into Wall Street's buzzword.[245] Due to a "ChatGPT effect", retail investors to drove up prices of AI-related cryptocurrency assets despite the broader cryptocurrency market being in a bear market, and diminished institutional investor interest.[246][247]

An experiment by finder.com conducted from March to April 2023 revealed that ChatGPT could outperform popular fund managers by picking stocks based on criteria such as growth history and debt levels, resulting in a 4.9% increase in a hypothetical account of 38 stocks, outperforming 10 benchmarked investment funds with an average loss of 0.8%.[248] Despite decades of using AI, Wall Street professionals report that consistently beating the market with AI, including recent large language models, is challenging due to limited and noisy financial data.[249]

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The uses and potential of ChatGPT in health care has been the topic of scientific publications and experts have shared many opinions. MedPage Today noted in January 2023 that "researchers have published several papers now touting these AI programs as useful tools in medical education, research, and even clinical decision making."[250] Another publication predicted that clinicians will use generative AI more in the future, but did not expect to see AI replacing clinicians.[251] The chatbot can assist patients seeking clarification about their health.[252] It can also pass exams for medical licensing, for example the United States Medical Licensing Examination and the Specialty Certificate Examination in Dermatology. ChatGPT can be used to assist professionals with diagnosis and staying up to date with clinical guidelines.[253] ChatGPT can produce correct answers to medical exam and licensing questions, for example the United States Medical Licensing Examination and the Specialty Certificate Examination in Dermatology.[253]

ChatGPT shows inconsistent responses, lack of specificity, lack of control over patient data, and a limited ability to take additional context (such as regional variations) into consideration.[254][255] The hallucinations characteristic of LLMs pose particular danger in medical contexts.[254]

ChatGPT can be used to summarize medical journal articles for researchers. In medical education, it can attempt to explain complex concepts, generating case scenarios, and be used by students who are preparing for licensing examinations.[254] According to a 2024 study in the International Journal of Surgery, concerns include "research fraud, lack of originality, ethics, copyright, legal difficulties, hallucination".[254] ChatGPT's ability to come up with false or faulty citations was highly criticized.[254][256]

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In January 2023, Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold and State Representative Josh S. Cutler proposed a bill partially written by ChatGPT, "An Act drafted with the help of ChatGPT to regulate generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT",[257][258][259] which would require companies to disclose their algorithms and data collection practices to the office of the State Attorney General, arrange regular risk assessments, and contribute to the prevention of plagiarism.[258][259][260] The bill was subsequently removed from the docket without coming to vote.[261]

On April 11, 2023, a session court judge in Pakistan used ChatGPT to decide the bail of a 13-year-old accused in a matter. The court quoted the use of ChatGPT assistance in its verdict:

Can a juvenile suspect in Pakistan, who is 13 years old, be granted bail after arrest?

The AI language model replied:

Under the Juvenile Justice System Act 2018, according to section 12, the court can grant bail on certain conditions. However, it is up to the court to decide whether or not a 13-year-old suspect will be granted bail after arrest.

The judge asked ChatGPT other questions about the case and formulated his final decision in light of its answers.[262][263]

In Mata v. Avianca, Inc., a personal injury lawsuit filed in May 2023, the plaintiff's attorneys used ChatGPT to generate a legal motion.[264][265] The attorneys were sanctioned for filing the motion and presenting the fictitious legal decisions ChatGPT generated as authentic.[266]

In October 2023, the council of Porto Alegre, Brazil, unanimously approved a local ordinance proposed by councilman Ramiro Rosário that would exempt residents from needing to pay for the replacement of stolen water consumption meters; the bill went into effect on November 23. On November 29, Rosário revealed that the bill had been entirely written by ChatGPT, and that he had presented it to the rest of the council without making any changes or disclosing the chatbot's involvement.[260][267][268] The city's council president, Hamilton Sossmeier, initially criticized Rosário's initiative, saying it could represent "a dangerous precedent",[268][269] but later said he "changed his mind": "unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend."[260][267]

In December 2023, a self-representing litigant in a tax case before the First-tier Tribunal in the United Kingdom cited a series of hallucinated cases purporting to support her argument that she had a reasonable excuse for not paying capital gains tax owed on the sale of property.[270][271] The judge warned that the submission of nonexistent legal authorities meant that both the Tribunal and HM Revenue and Customs had "to waste time and public money", which "reduces the resources available to progress the cases of other court users who are waiting for their appeals to be determined".[272]

Judge Kevin Newsom of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit endorsed the use of ChatGPT and noted that he himself uses the software to help decide rulings on contract interpretation issues.[273][274]

In July 2024, the American Bar Association (ABA) issued its first formal ethics opinion on attorneys using generative AI. It guides attorneys to make their own decisions regarding AI usage and its impacts on their competence, client privacy, and fee structures. Lawyers should consider disclosing AI usage to their clients and acknowledge a rapidly shifting set of AI capabilities.[275]

Judge Julien Xavier Neals of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey withdrew an opinion denying a motion to dismiss after discovering that the document contained misstated case outcomes and fabricated quotations attributed to judicial opinions and to the defendants. According to Judge Neals in October 2025, a law-school intern used ChatGPT in the legal research for the opinion.[276]

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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models from the GPT series, fine-tuned initially from for contextually relevant dialogue, with later versions like and incorporating multimodal features such as image analysis and voice interaction. The release prompted rapid adoption, with 800 million weekly active users by late 2025 and applications in programming, writing, research, education, reasoning, and knowledge tasks. In early 2026, OpenAI began testing advertising monetization by displaying labeled ad units at the bottom of ChatGPT responses for logged-in adult users on free and ChatGPT Go ($8/month) tiers in the United States, stating it will not share user conversations or personal data with advertisers, while Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users remain ad-free. Yet it shows limitations including hallucinations—confident but false outputs—and biases from training data, prompting debates on misinformation, privacy, copyright in training data, and societal risks.

Overview

Definition and Core Functionality

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by , publicly released on November 30, 2022. It operates as a web and mobile application for interactive text-based conversations, with voice input and output added in later updates. Built on large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI's GPT series, it was initially fine-tuned from GPT-3.5 using transformer architectures to process and generate natural language. ChatGPT processes user prompts—from simple queries to complex instructions—by generating responses autoregressively through next-token prediction, sampling from probability distributions (e.g., via temperature or nucleus methods) based on patterns in training data like internet text and books. This involves pre-training on vast corpora for language understanding, followed by supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to improve coherence, helpfulness, and harmlessness. Unlike search engines, it synthesizes new content for tasks such as essay drafting, code debugging, concept explanation, or dialogue simulation, though it risks factual inaccuracies (hallucinations) from relying on statistical associations rather than true comprehension. It maintains conversation context over multiple turns, admits errors when queried, rejects inappropriate requests, and challenges incorrect premises, supporting iterative use. By 2025, features like web search and agentic tools enable real-time retrieval and execution, but the core remains transformer-based autoregressive generation.

Initial Launch and Rapid Adoption

ChatGPT was publicly released by on November 30, 2022, as a free research preview via web interface, powered by the GPT-3.5 large language model. OpenAI announced the launch through its blog and social media, highlighting conversational capabilities for writing assistance, coding, and question-answering. Free access included rate limits, with capacity blocks emerging within days—such as "You've reached your usage limit" on December 6 and "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" on December 7—causing server overloads amid high demand. Coherent, context-aware responses drove viral sharing on and , accelerating adoption through word-of-mouth, media coverage, and utility demos. ChatGPT reached one million users in five days and an estimated 100 million monthly active users by January 2023, outpacing 's record. Its growth mirrors pivotal launches like Netscape Navigator in 1994, which popularized the web, and the iPhone in 2007, which transformed mobile computing—both democratizing technologies and sparking booms. ChatGPT similarly mainstreamed generative AI, achieving 100 million users faster than any prior service, fueling investments and applications. Experts call it AI's "Netscape moment." Early users noted limitations like factual inaccuracies and repetitive outputs. OpenAI managed surging demand and infrastructure strain with a January 2023 waitlist tied to monetization, ChatGPT Professional announcement on January 11, and ChatGPT Plus subscriptions launching February 1 for priority access. Daily visits peaked at 60 million in 2023 and surpassed 100 million by 2025, highlighting AI's appeal amid concerns over costs and energy. Adoption cut across students, professionals, and hobbyists, initially concentrated among tech-savvy users in developed areas.

Historical Development

Origins at OpenAI

, the organization behind ChatGPT, was incorporated on December 8, 2015, and publicly announced on December 11, 2015, as a non-profit by founders including , , Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman, with the mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefiting humanity. The initiative addressed concerns over rapid AI advances by for-profit entities like , promoting open research and safety-focused development. OpenAI partnered with in 2019 for cloud resources to support compute-intensive AGI efforts and shifted to a capped-profit subsidiary model. This allowed equity investments with limited returns—100 times for initial investors, lower multiples later—to prioritize mission alignment over commercialization. The structure enabled scaling of large language models, starting with in June 2018, which used unsupervised pre-training on the BookCorpus dataset for next-word prediction. This progressed to in February 2019 and in June 2020, with 175 billion parameters and emergent capabilities from massive scaling. ChatGPT originated from OpenAI's post- alignment research, including InstructGPT released in January 2022, which refined GPT-3 via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to improve instruction-following and reduce untruthful or harmful outputs. A sibling model fine-tuned from the GPT-3.5 series—base training completed in early 2022—ChatGPT applied similar RLHF to datasets blending InstructGPT outputs and new human-ranked dialogues, enhancing conversational coherence and safety. Researchers like John Schulman oversaw the process, using human trainers to rank responses and address issues such as verbosity and factual inaccuracies in prototypes. Developed as an internal prototype emphasizing helpful, honest responses over raw generative power—reflecting OpenAI's shift toward utility amid diminishing returns from unaligned scaling—the model launched on November 30, 2022, as a free research preview at chat.openai.com to evaluate real-world performance.

Pre-ChatGPT Prototypes

OpenAI's work on large language models began with , released on June 11, 2018. This 117-million-parameter transformer model underwent unsupervised training on the BookCorpus dataset, comprising about 985 million words from over 7,000 unpublished books. It pioneered generative pre-training followed by fine-tuning, yielding state-of-the-art results on natural language understanding benchmarks despite constraints in scale and data volume. , released on February 14, 2019, expanded to 1.5 billion parameters using WebText, curated from 8 million Reddit-linked web pages while excluding low-quality content. It generated coherent multi-paragraph text from prompts and excelled in zero-shot tasks. OpenAI initially withheld the full model over misuse concerns, releasing variants after safety assessments that highlighted risks of unchecked capabilities. , launched via API on June 11, 2020, scaled to 175 billion parameters trained on filtered Common Crawl (about 410 billion tokens), WebText2, Books1, Books2, and Wikipedia. It supported few-shot learning, adapting to tasks like translation and code completion directly from prompts without fine-tuning. Yet it exhibited factual inaccuracies and sensitivity to prompts, reducing reliability; access remained API-only for commercial applications. InstructGPT fine-tuned smaller GPT-3 variants (1.3 and 6 billion parameters) via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), as announced in a January 27, 2022, blog post and detailed in a March 4, 2022, paper by Ouyang et al. The process involved supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling from human rankings, and RL optimization, enabling these models to surpass the full GPT-3 in instruction-following despite reduced resources—though hallucinations persisted. It curbed GPT-3's verbosity and off-topic responses, prioritizing helpful, honest, and harmless outputs. Earlier efforts included WebGPT (December 16, 2021) for browser-assisted answers via feedback and internal RLHF prototypes preceding ChatGPT's November 2022 debut.

Public Release and Early Iterations

OpenAI released ChatGPT publicly on November 30, 2022, as a free research preview powered by a fine-tuned GPT-3.5 model optimized for dialogue via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). The launch, following internal testing, sought user data for refinement and offered access via chat.openai.com. Adoption exploded, hitting 1 million users in five days and over 100 million monthly active users by January 2023—faster than Instagram or TikTok. This overwhelmed infrastructure, causing outages and waitlists that exposed scalability limits alongside the interface's appeal. Early updates stabilized the system, using RLHF to curb hallucinations and unsafe outputs for better coherence. To manage demand, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Plus in February 2023 for $20 monthly, providing priority access while keeping core features free. Plugins followed on March 23, 2023, with beta web browsing and plugins for Plus users starting May 12, expanding beyond text generation.

Technical Architecture

Training Methodology

ChatGPT's training applies three phases to a base large language model: supervised fine-tuning on instruction-following data, reward model training using human preferences, and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align with user intent. First developed in OpenAI's InstructGPT and adapted for ChatGPT on GPT-3.5, this method enhances responses to be helpful, honest, and harmless beyond basic text prediction. Supervised fine-tuning employs datasets from human annotators, who pair prompts with high-quality responses simulating user-assistant interactions. This trains the base model via supervised learning to follow instructions and sustain coherent dialogue, with prompts drawn from OpenAI API usage or newly created for diversity. Next, a reward model is trained by labelers ranking 4-9 outputs from the supervised model per prompt. These pairwise comparisons enable a fine-tuned language model to generate scalar rewards reflecting preferences for helpfulness, truthfulness, and harmlessness, surmounting limitations of absolute labels. RLHF then employs Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), with the chat model generating responses scored by the reward model and the policy updating to maximize rewards under a per-token KL divergence constraint against the supervised reference, averting reward hacking or deviation. PPO's sample efficiency supports large-scale generation. Later iterations, including GPT-4-based versions, expand feedback datasets and integrate safety signals. These processes, reinforced by OpenAI's safety measures—such as training models to discern right from wrong, filtering harmful content, empathetic responses, red teaming, iterative improvements, and model mitigations—yield balanced, cautious outputs with disclaimers or nuanced perspectives to minimize harm, misinformation, or over-enthusiasm, even in positive contexts.

Data Sources and Scaling

The pre-training datasets for GPT models like GPT-3.5 consist mainly of filtered internet text, with a large share from Common Crawl, a nonprofit web archive since 2008. For GPT-3, about 60% of the 410 billion byte-pair-encoded tokens came from filtered Common Crawl data from 2016–2019, yielding 45 terabytes of compressed text. Other sources include WebText, Books1 and Books2, and English Wikipedia, prioritizing linguistic diversity. OpenAI follows empirical scaling laws, where cross-entropy loss follows a power-law decline with increases in parameters, tokens, and compute (FLOPs). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, trained on 300 billion tokens using thousands of petaflop/s-days of compute. Details for GPT-3.5 and later remain proprietary; GPT-3.5 used text and code up to Q4 2021, with ChatGPT fine-tuned from a model completed in early 2022. For GPT-4 and subsequent models, datasets are larger but undisclosed, with improved filtering to reduce biases and low-quality content from sources like Common Crawl. Knowledge cutoffs differ by variant, such as September 2021 for base GPT-4 and December 2023 for turbo updates, due to proprietary pipelines without real-time access. This approach has boosted capabilities, though limited transparency on data raises issues of reproducibility and potential inclusion of copyrighted or biased material.

Inference and Infrastructure

ChatGPT employs autoregressive generation for inference, tokenizing input text into sequences, computing embeddings, and iteratively predicting the next token from probability distributions over model parameters. This process continues until an end-of-sequence token or maximum length, with reinforcement learning from human feedback aligning outputs to desired behaviors. Inference demands scale with model size and query complexity; GPT-4 variants require extensive GPU parallelism for matrix operations and attention. Efficiency gains come from key-value caching, which reuses projections from prior tokens to avoid full recomputation; model pruning to remove redundancies; and quantization to lower precision, reducing latency and energy without major performance loss. These techniques mitigate costs, with early peak-load estimates exceeding $600,000 daily across thousands of GPUs. OpenAI's infrastructure centers on Microsoft Azure, featuring custom supercomputers for real-time serving with tens of thousands of NVIDIA A100 and later GPUs. To handle demand, 2025 partnerships include NVIDIA for 10 gigawatts of AI data centers (millions of GPUs), AMD for 6 gigawatts of Instinct GPUs starting with a 1-gigawatt cluster in 2026, and Broadcom for 10 gigawatts of custom accelerators. Oracle Cloud and AWS integrations provide further capacity and redundancy, addressing GPU bottlenecks that have limited free-tier access.

Model Evolution

GPT-3.5 Turbo Era

ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022, powered by a fine-tuned GPT-3.5 series model focused on instruction-following and conversational coherence within a 4,096-token context window. It transitioned to GPT-3.5 Turbo on March 1, 2023, an optimized variant offering lower latency, reduced costs (around $0.002 per 1,000 tokens), and suitability for high-volume chats compared to predecessors like text-davinci-003. This shift supported rapid scaling and developer adoption amid surging demand, with improved multi-turn conversation handling over initial GPT-3.5 versions. Benchmarks showed gains in natural language understanding, yet limitations persisted in factual accuracy, reasoning depth, hallucinations, adversarial vulnerabilities, and biases from internet-sourced training data. The era bridged foundational GPT-3.5 to advanced models, featuring snapshot versions like gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 for performance stability through mid-2023. Developer feedback highlighted output variability from fine-tuning tweaks, while affordability enabled enterprise integrations, prompting stricter policies on privacy, misuse, and misinformation risks.

GPT-4 and Multimodal Advances

OpenAI announced GPT-4 on March 14, 2023, a large language model outperforming GPT-3.5 on benchmarks of human-like understanding, such as the bar and GRE exams, where it surpassed prior models but remained below human experts in many areas. Integrated into ChatGPT for Plus subscribers soon after, it provided an initial 8,192-token context window (later expanded to 32,768 tokens), better handling of complex instructions, and fewer hallucinations via synthetic data training and reinforcement learning from human feedback. GPT-4 used a transformer-based architecture scaled to an estimated 1.76 trillion parameters, improving zero-shot reasoning in code generation and multilingual translation, though exact counts are undisclosed. A variant, GPT-4 Turbo, was introduced on November 6, 2023, featuring a 128,000-token context window to accommodate longer conversations and documents, alongside cost reductions for API usage and a knowledge cutoff extended to December 2023. Multimodal capabilities advanced with the release of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision in April 2024, allowing the model to process image inputs alongside text for tasks such as visual question answering, object detection in diagrams, and interpreting charts, marking a shift from text-only processing in early ChatGPT iterations. These vision features enabled ChatGPT users to upload images for analysis, such as describing medical scans or troubleshooting visual errors in code screenshots, though outputs remained text-based and subject to errors in spatial reasoning or low-resolution inputs. The most significant multimodal leap occurred with GPT-4o, released on May 13, 2024, as OpenAI's flagship model optimized for speed and efficiency while matching or exceeding GPT-4 on intelligence benchmarks. Unlike prior versions, GPT-4o natively integrates text, vision, and audio modalities in real-time, supporting end-to-end processing without separate transcription or vision models, which reduced latency to near-human response times in voice interactions—averaging 320 milliseconds for audio replies. In ChatGPT, this enabled Advanced Voice Mode for Plus and higher tiers, allowing conversational speech with emotional tone detection and interruptions, alongside image uploads for combined audio-visual queries, such as real-time translation of spoken content overlaid on visuals. GPT-4o also facilitated seamless integration with DALL-E 3 for image generation prompts derived from multimodal inputs, though safeguards limited photorealistic outputs of real individuals to mitigate misuse. Performance gains included halved inference costs compared to GPT-4 Turbo and broader availability to free-tier users with rate limits, driving increased adoption for diverse applications like accessibility aids and creative workflows. Despite these advances, GPT-4o exhibited persistent limitations in factual recall beyond its October 2023 knowledge cutoff and occasional biases inherited from training data, necessitating user verification for critical tasks.

Reasoning-Focused Models (o1 Series)

The o1 series, released by OpenAI on September 12, 2024, shifts focus from direct response generation to internal reasoning processes. Models like o1-preview and o1-mini generate hidden chain-of-thought sequences before answering, improving performance on complex problems in mathematics, coding, and science. Rolled out to ChatGPT Plus subscribers with limits—50 queries per week for o1-preview and 50 per day for o1-mini—it integrates into ChatGPT but lacks GPT-4o's web browsing and multimodal features. The series trains via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) to build reasoning habits, beyond supervised fine-tuning or prompts. Models produce step-by-step thoughts, refining strategies, spotting errors, and breaking down tasks; performance scales logarithmically with added compute for reasoning. Unlike earlier models using explicit chain-of-thought prompts, o1 internalizes the process, minimizing superficial pattern matching. Safety training embeds policies into deliberations, reducing adversarial failures versus GPT-4o. In reasoning benchmarks, o1-preview surpasses GPT-4o: 83% versus 13% on the International Mathematical Olympiad qualifying exam, 89th percentile on Codeforces, 74% versus 12% on AIME, and PhD-level results on GPQA Diamond for graduate science in physics, chemistry, and biology. Gains stem from variable thinking time—up to minutes for hard queries—at the cost of higher latency and tokens. o1-mini, a cost-efficient variant for STEM, runs 3–5 times faster than o1-preview while costing 80% less via API. It excels in coding (92.4% on HumanEval) and math (90% on MATH-500, 70% on AIME) but lags on knowledge-heavy tests like GPQA (60%) from limited factual training. The full o1 refines these, reaching 94.8% on MATH-500. Limitations persist, including higher hallucinations outside reasoning and disruption from verbose prompts. The o1 models were deprecated earlier in 2025.

Mid-2025 Releases (GPT-4.5, GPT-4.1, and o3/o4)

On February 27, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-4.5, its largest model to date, which advanced scaling laws via extensive pre-training to improve pattern recognition, creativity, empathy, natural conversation, and general knowledge. Available initially to ChatGPT Pro subscribers and via API, it required substantial compute resources compared to predecessors. In April 2025, OpenAI launched GPT-4.1 via API, optimizing it for coding and complex instruction-following, with integration into ChatGPT for paid users by May 14. It outperformed GPT-4o on benchmarks like SWE-bench Verified for software engineering tasks, retained a 128,000-token context window, and included efficient variants like nano for lower latency and fewer code errors. OpenAI also progressed its reasoning models with the o3 series and o4-mini, extending the o1 framework. The o3-mini variant launched on January 31, 2025, as a cost-efficient option for math, coding, and scientific reasoning. Full o3 and o4-mini followed on April 16, with o4-mini enabling rapid, low-cost inference and strong performance in targeted evaluations. By June 10, o3-pro became available to ChatGPT Pro users via API and interface, adding tool-use for complex queries. These emphasized inference efficiency and refined reasoning hierarchies over raw scale. These mid-2025 updates hybridize ChatGPT's capabilities, combining GPT-4.1's multimodal and coding prowess with o3/o4's structured reasoning, though inconsistencies appeared in non-specialized tasks versus GPT-4o. Positioned as steps toward GPT-5, they gained developer adoption for precision tasks, with o3 excelling in multi-step proofs and GPT-4.1 in debugging and integrations per user data.

GPT-5 and Beyond (2025)

OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, positioning it as a major advancement in LLM capabilities. The model demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in areas such as coding, mathematics, and writing, surpassing prior iterations like GPT-4 in benchmark evaluations. It integrated enhanced reasoning mechanisms, enabling more reliable handling of multi-step problems without explicit chain-of-thought prompting in all cases. Specialized variants followed, including GPT-5-codex on September 15, 2025, optimized for software development tasks with improvements in generating complex front-end code and debugging extensive repositories. This variant became accessible via API on September 23, 2025. GPT-5 received further updates on October 3, 2025, refining response quality and efficiency. By October 22, 2025, OpenAI updated the default model for unsigned-in ChatGPT users to GPT-5 Instant, expanding access to these capabilities. In November 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5.1 as an upgrade to GPT-5, introducing variants such as GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking with enhancements in adaptive reasoning, coding performance, and personalization features including new personality presets. It rolled out initially to paid ChatGPT users and became available via API. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, released on November 19, 2025, serves as OpenAI's specialized agentic coding model and the current state-of-the-art Codex model, featuring improvements in speed, intelligence, and token efficiency, as well as support for long-running coding workflows with multi-context window operations and automatic context compaction. It includes an "xhigh" extra high reasoning effort mode for non-latency-sensitive tasks that achieves state-of-the-art performance on SWE-Bench Verified with a score of 77.9%. On December 11, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5.2 as an upgrade in the GPT-5 series, introducing variants such as GPT-5.2 Instant and GPT-5.2 Thinking with enhancements in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision capabilities. OpenAI prioritized technical capabilities such as reasoning, coding, and engineering over language, writing, and creative performance, leading to regressions in those areas. CEO Sam Altman admitted that the team "screwed up" the language capabilities. GPT-5.2 Pro, released in December 2025, serves as an advanced version focused on smarter, more precise responses for professional knowledge work, with improvements in reasoning effort levels (medium, high, xhigh) and performance on benchmarks like ARC-AGI, alongside enhanced capabilities in agentic tasks, coding, and long-context handling. In the ChatGPT web/app interface, even on Pro plans, context limits for GPT-5.2 advanced models are capped at 128k–196k input tokens, with output limits of 32k–100k tokens; high-reasoning modes utilize additional internal tokens but do not substantially increase user-visible context. The Reasoning/Thinking mode excels in deep logical thinking for multi-step problems, handling long contexts like large codebases, precise code generation, debugging, and structured solutions, with strong performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-Bench and HumanEval for real-world software engineering. It rolled out initially to paid ChatGPT users and became available via API. GPT-5.2 Pro derived original proofs solving the open problem of learning-curve monotonicity for maximum likelihood estimators in Gaussian settings. On December 18, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, the most advanced agentic coding model optimized for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity tasks. It became available in Codex surfaces for paid ChatGPT users. On February 5, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, described as the most capable agentic coding model to date, with enhancements in long-running tasks, real-time interaction, and complex execution within ChatGPT. On February 12, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a low-latency variant of GPT-5.3-Codex powered by Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 for high-speed inference, available in research preview. As of February 10, 2026, ChatGPT utilizes advanced models including GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3-Codex. On February 13, 2026, OpenAI retired access to older models including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, OpenAI o4-mini, and GPT-5 (Instant and Thinking) from ChatGPT. These models remain available via the OpenAI API. The announcement does not include GPT-4.5 or o1 models, which were deprecated earlier in 2025, due to low usage, cost optimization, and to encourage adoption of newer models. Looking beyond GPT-5, OpenAI has outlined ambitions for multiple next-generation models, including reports of plans to develop five large-scale AI systems extending past the GPT-5 series to address emerging computational and application demands. CEO Sam Altman emphasized continued rapid iteration during the August 2025 launch livestream, though specific timelines for successors like a potential GPT-6 remain unconfirmed, with historical release intervals suggesting intervals of approximately 28 months between major versions. These developments prioritize scaling inference efficiency and integrating real-time data processing, amid ongoing infrastructure expansions to support trillion-parameter training runs.

Capabilities and Features

Conversational Interface

ChatGPT's conversational interface is a chat-based system accessible via web browser at chatgpt.com, mobile apps for iOS and Android, desktop apps for macOS and Windows (the Windows app available for free on the Microsoft Store since September 2024, rated 4.2/5, featuring instant answers via keyboard shortcut, Advanced Voice chat, web search, file uploads, screenshot analysis, and DALL·E integration, with regular updates including one in February 2026), and toll-free number 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) for voice interactions. Messaging via WhatsApp discontinued on January 15, 2026. Users enter natural language prompts in a text field to receive responses from large language models. In such interactions, when prompted to select a personal name for itself, ChatGPT frequently chooses "Nova", evoking themes of newness, a star's burst of brightness, growth, discovery, and exploration. This is not an official rebranding by OpenAI but a recurrent response observed widely on social media since late 2024, sometimes leading users to treat it as a distinct persona. The system uses automatic model routing to select the best model per query based on complexity, speed, user signals, and metrics, optimizing efficiency without user input. Launched on November 30, 2022, as a free GPT-3.5 preview, it supports dialogue with follow-up questions, error corrections, and context retention across turns via the model's token window. Additionally, ChatGPT's Memory feature, significantly upgraded in January 2026 for Plus and Pro users, allows referencing saved memories—explicitly instructed details—and insights from past conversations across chats, including recall of and direct linking to conversations up to a year old, with past chats searchable and effectively permanent when enabled via Settings > Personalization > Reference chat history. This provides personalized responses with some continuity but does not automatically resume exact previous threads; for direct continuation, users reopen the original chat thread. Users can manage settings, delete memories, or use Temporary Chat mode to disable memory entirely. Users can regenerate responses, edit prior messages, start new or incognito chats without history saving, and view sidebar history to rename, delete, or share chats via public URLs (e.g., chatgpt.com/share/[unique-id]) that allow others to view specific conversation sessions including prompts, responses, code, or discussions. Conversations persist indefinitely unless deleted by the user. To manage lengthy conversations, ChatGPT provides a "Branch in new chat" feature that forks a new thread from a selected message, preserving the context up to that point in the new chat while leaving the original intact. This enables exploration of alternative response paths without mixing threads. In the web interface, users hover over the message, click the three dots menu, and select "Branch in new chat"; in the mobile app, long-pressing the message accesses the option. For conversations approaching the model's context limits (up to 196k tokens in advanced modes), users can prompt ChatGPT to summarize key points and continue in a new chat by incorporating the summary. As of 2025, embedded apps integrate dynamic tools into chats for enhanced interaction. OpenAI plans an adult mode in early 2026 for verified users to generate NSFW content like erotica and engage in mature talks, though the model typically rejects such prompts despite policy allowance. Voice features, introduced September 25, 2023, in mobile apps, allow real-time spoken exchanges via microphone icon. Advanced Voice Mode enables interruptible conversations with emotional tone detection, handling pauses and fillers like human speech, plus screen, camera, or video sharing and real-time translation across languages when prompted. Primarily for paid subscribers in mobile apps, these support language practice and ideation but require opt-in for new functions. The Background Conversations feature, an opt-in setting toggleable in app settings under Voice Mode, allows active voice chats to continue in the background (e.g., during app switching or screen lock) until manually ended, force-closed, or limits reached, requiring explicit microphone permission.

Multimodal Inputs and Outputs

ChatGPT initially supported only text inputs and outputs using the GPT-3.5 model launched in November 2022. The introduction of GPT-4 in March 2023 added multimodal capabilities, starting with text and image inputs via GPT-4 Vision (GPT-4V), which allowed image uploads for analysis, such as visual question answering. This became available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers in October 2023, enabling the model to process visual content alongside text. Image generation outputs were added in October 2023 through integration with DALL-E 3 for Plus users, allowing creation of images from text descriptions within chats. The GPT-4o model, released on May 13, 2024, advanced native multimodality with end-to-end training across text, vision, and audio, supporting text, image, and audio inputs while generating text and audio outputs. This facilitated real-time voice interactions in Advanced Voice Mode, rolled out in alpha to Plus users soon after, with audio transcribed for responsive speech synthesis. GPT-4o updates in January 2025 improved visual input understanding, boosting performance on benchmarks like MMMU. In March 2025, it gained direct image generation, drawing on the model's knowledge for accurate text rendering and prompt adherence, complementing DALL-E. These features provide integrated conversational ease, strong prompt handling, precise text in images, iterative editing via chat, and suitability for quick generations. Voice mode refinements in September 2025, using GPT-4o mini, reduced latency and enhanced response quality. Overall, these expand utility for image description, diagram interpretation, speech-based language practice, and creative visualization, though limited to text, static images, and synthesized audio without native video.

ChatGPT Health

ChatGPT Health, launched January 7, 2026, enables users to securely connect medical records via b.well (initially US-only) and wellness apps like Apple Health, Function Health, Peloton, and MyFitnessPal for personalized, data-grounded health conversations. It offers insights, trend tracking (e.g., sleep or activity patterns), diet and workout recommendations, test result explanations, appointment preparation, and insurance comparisons. The feature complements professional care by guiding navigation of health, fitness, and nutrition without diagnosing or treating conditions. Health data is encrypted, siloed from regular chats, stored separately, excluded from model training, and subject to a specific privacy notice; conversations, files, and memories are isolated with custom instructions. Developed with input from over 260 physicians across 60 countries, it is available on waitlist for web and iOS (Free, Go, Plus, Pro plans) outside the EEA, Switzerland, and UK, with Android support and expansions planned. Complementing this, OpenAI launched OpenAI for Healthcare on January 8, 2026, including ChatGPT for Healthcare—an enterprise platform for institutions such as AdventHealth, Baylor Scott & White Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, HCA Healthcare, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, and UCSF. It provides HIPAA-compliant APIs via Business Associate Agreements, medical evidence search with transparent citations from peer-reviewed studies and guidelines, and integrations like Microsoft SharePoint. Enterprise health data is similarly excluded from training, with added controls for data residency, audit logs, and role-based access.

Customization and GPT Store

Custom GPTs, also known as GPTs, enable users to create tailored versions of ChatGPT without programming expertise, by specifying instructions, uploading knowledge files, and selecting capabilities such as web browsing, code interpretation, or image generation via DALL-E. Custom GPTs leverage the underlying GPT model's built-in knowledge, which includes general familiarity with topics like the Bible derived from training data. Thus, users do not strictly need to upload Bible texts for basic reference or discussion. However, uploading specific translations or versions as knowledge files is recommended for Bible-focused Custom GPTs to ensure accurate quotes, reduce hallucinations, and provide tailored responses. This feature launched on November 6, 2023, for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers; creating and using custom GPTs requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription (or higher plan) as of 2026, with free users having no access to custom GPT features and no announced changes to this policy. This allows customization for specific tasks like brainstorming, data analysis, presentation generation using custom GPTs such as Slide Maker or Presentation GPT from the GPT Store, or niche expertise simulation, particularly in paid versions. Code interpretation capabilities further allow generation of PowerPoint files via Python code with the python-pptx library in paid tiers. Creators configure GPTs through an intuitive interface, defining system prompts for behavior, providing optional file uploads for domain-specific data, and enabling actions that integrate external APIs for dynamic functionality. The GPT Store, OpenAI's marketplace for these custom creations, opened on January 10, 2024, permitting Plus users to publish, browse, and use community-built GPTs via search, categories, and leaderboards highlighting popular or trending options. By the store's launch, developers had already produced over 3 million custom GPTs during the initial private testing phase. All GPTs in the store remain free to access and use, with no upfront paywalls, though OpenAI has implemented revenue-sharing for verified builders based on usage metrics starting in mid-2024. Enterprise variants include administrative controls for internal deployment and visibility restrictions. Custom GPTs are accessible in the ChatGPT iOS app for ChatGPT Plus subscribers via the "Explore GPTs" section or search in the GPT Store. They are primarily used within the ChatGPT app and lack direct integration with third-party apps or system features like Siri or Apple Intelligence, which utilize the standard ChatGPT model. End-users can create home screen shortcuts by sharing the custom GPT's URL from the app or website, or use the Shortcuts app to open the URL for quicker access. Deeper integrations require developers to replicate functionality using the OpenAI API. As of 2025, customization extends beyond GPTs to include persistent custom instructions for all ChatGPT interactions, where users set preferences for response style, context awareness, or role-playing. These instructions are structured in two sections—“What would you like ChatGPT to know about you?” for providing background information such as desired persona, and “How would you like ChatGPT to respond?” for specifying detailed rules on tone, language, structure, opinions, and prohibitions—to achieve a desired response style. They are applied across models like GPT-4o. The Memories feature enables ChatGPT to retain and reference details from past chats for more personalized responses, with saved memories persisting indefinitely and chat history reference allowing recall of previous conversations; a major update in April 2025 for Plus/Pro users incorporated all past conversations, followed by improvements in January 2026 for more reliable recall of specific details. While integration with newer models enables GPTs to leverage advanced reasoning or multimodal inputs. In December 2025, OpenAI launched "Your Year with ChatGPT," an optional end-of-year feature providing personalized recaps of user interactions throughout the year. User archetypes are dynamically generated based on personal usage data from chatting habits, reflecting patterns such as information seeking, strategic thinking, experimentation, content production, or exploratory learning. These tools democratize AI adaptation but rely on user-defined prompts, which can propagate errors if foundational instructions lack rigor.

Advanced Tools (Agents, Deep Research, Realtime)

ChatGPT Study Mode, introduced on July 29, 2025, serves as an interactive tutor for topics like books, offering step-by-step guidance, Socratic questioning, quizzes, and flashcards. It adapts to the user's level, supporting progressive learning for retention and exam preparation. ChatGPT integrates agentic capabilities in GPT-4o and GPT-5 models, including web browsing and code interpretation for data analysis and execution. These extend to the Computer-Using Agent (CUA) or Operator mode, available in Pro/Plus tiers and integrated with ChatGPT Atlas, which uses screenshots for visual perception, chain-of-thought reasoning, and virtual controls to interact with GUIs, such as navigating websites or filling forms. The ChatGPT Agent, launched July 17, 2025, autonomously selects and executes tasks from a toolkit, including external tools and simulated operations. Iterative improvements in early 2026 included enhanced auto-switching between agent mode and chat on February 4, 2026, to prevent accidental message routing; the release of GPT-5.3-Codex on February 5, 2026, described as the most capable agentic coding model to date, improving long-running tasks, real-time interaction, and complex execution in ChatGPT; and the introduction of the Codex app on February 2, 2026, for managing multiple coding agents. OpenAI continues to roll out regular enhancements for efficiency, depth, and versatility. Building on the Assistants API for multi-step workflows like automation, these systems enable customization via AgentKit for task-oriented AI. Independent tests report low success rates, such as 12.5% for complex tasks. Deep Research, introduced February 2, 2025, for Plus, Team, and Pro users (with a limited free version), acts as a specialized agent for in-depth internet investigations. It browses numerous sources, reasons over data, and generates cited reports on complex topics, taking 5-30 minutes with real-time updates. Users access it via chatgpt.com or the app by selecting the tool and entering a query. Integrating reasoning models with web search, it handles multi-step inquiries like market analyses, though outputs may include synthesis errors. Realtime features rely on the gpt-realtime model and API, updated August 28, 2025, for low-latency speech-to-speech via a unified audio pipeline, achieving 82.8% accuracy on benchmarks. Enhancements at OpenAI DevDay on October 6, 2025, added the gpt-realtime-mini, offering comparable performance at 70% lower cost for audio, text, and multimodal interactions. This enables natural voice conversations with interruptions and low delay, improving on prior multi-stage processing, and supports developer integrations via WebRTC or WebSocket, optimized for voice agents.

Access Tiers and Integrations (Including Atlas Browser)

ChatGPT provides access tiers for individuals, teams, and enterprises, differing in usage limits, model availability, and features. All tiers apply limits, accelerated by longer contexts or high-compute tasks. As of February 2026, ChatGPT Go is available as a paid tier priced at $8 per month (with regional variations, e.g., ₹399 per month in India since August 2025), offering higher usage limits than the free plan, including more messages, uploads, image creation, and longer memory (which may include ads). ChatGPT services, including ChatGPT Go, remain unavailable in China, where OpenAI has blocked access since launch due to regulatory and policy restrictions. Pricing can change, and future announcements would come from OpenAI directly. Plans as of February 2026 include a free tier with limited access to models like GPT-4o mini; ChatGPT Go as described; ChatGPT Plus at $20 monthly for priority access to GPT-4o and advanced features; ChatGPT Pro at $200 monthly for higher limits and access to advanced models; Team at $25 per user monthly (annual) or $30 monthly for small teams; and Enterprise with custom pricing for large organizations. Access to GPT-5, including variant GPT-5.2, incorporates subscription-based message limits: free users up to 10 messages every 5 hours; Plus and Go users up to 160 messages every 3 hours; exceeding the limit switches chats to a mini or less capable model until the window resets. Paid options provide higher limits, access to advanced models, and additional features such as data analysis, custom GPTs, voice mode, and early feature previews. For teams, the plan offers shared workspaces, admin controls, user management, usage tracking, and elevated group throughput. The admin dashboard, available in Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans, focuses on organizational management, including user provisioning, SSO, domain verification, role-based access controls, app integrations, and usage analytics (e.g., active users, total messages, custom GPT usage). It does not include specific features for content generation or novel management, such as tools to organize, edit, track, or manage generated novel content, chapters, or writing projects. Content generation occurs in the standard ChatGPT interface or Projects feature (for grouping chats and files), while admins oversee usage and security but not individual content. Enterprise suits large organizations with custom pricing, unlimited access under fair use, enterprise security, compliance tools, and dedicated support for system integrations.
TierMonthly Price (USD)Key Features and Limits
Free$0Limited access to models like GPT-4o mini.
Go$8Higher usage limits than free, including more messages, uploads, image creation, longer memory (may include ads).
Plus$20Priority access to GPT-4o, advanced features.
Pro$200Higher limits and access to advanced models.
Team$25/user (annual) or $30Shared workspaces; admin controls, user management, usage tracking; higher group throughput.
EnterpriseCustomUnlimited (fair use); security/compliance; custom integrations.
Integrations extend ChatGPT via OpenAI's API (pay-per-token, separate from consumer tiers) for embedding in apps. Connectors link to services like Microsoft Outlook for email/calendar access through Graph APIs. Third-party tools such as Zapier enable no-code workflows with over 8,000 apps, including Microsoft Power Automate. The 2025 Apps SDK integrates partners like Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow directly into ChatGPT, initially in select markets. Enterprise examples include Concentric AI for data classification. Agentic features support in-app purchases.

ChatGPT Atlas

ChatGPT Atlas, launched October 21, 2025, embeds ChatGPT in a dedicated browser for web tasks. Available to all subscribers, it offers basic browsing universally; Plus and above access advanced agents for summaries, navigation, form filling, tab management, and downloads. It includes map integration and session memory but faces critiques on speed and complex automation. Users download the macOS client (Windows, iOS, Android forthcoming), prioritizing privacy in non-shared sessions.

ChatGPT Translate

ChatGPT Translate, launched on January 15, 2026, is a standalone web-based translation tool accessible at chatgpt.com/translate. It supports text, voice, and image inputs across over 50 languages, delivering fast, natural translations that preserve accuracy, tone, and cultural nuance.

Limitations and Technical Shortcomings

Hallucinations and Factual Inaccuracies

Hallucinations in ChatGPT involve generating plausible but factually incorrect information, often confidently asserted. This arises from the autoregressive prediction mechanism, relying on statistical patterns in training data without true comprehension or verification. Training processes favor decisive outputs, penalizing uncertainty and prompting fabrication amid data gaps. Studies report varying hallucination rates across versions and tasks. GPT-4o showed up to 61.8% in factual retrieval benchmarks, while reasoning models like o3 and o4-mini reached 51% and 79%, exceeding o1's 44%, with errors amplifying in long chains per OpenAI tests. Vectara's leaderboard indicated GPT-4.5-preview at 1.2% for document summary faithfulness, though real-world queries often produce higher errors due to complexity. Fine-tuning lowers rates in controlled environments, but open-ended interactions sustain the issue, with persistence noted into 2026. Prominent cases illustrate impacts. In 2023's Mata v. Avianca, a lawyer cited six fabricated cases from ChatGPT, leading to sanctions. Comparable 2025 incidents included false citations in a Utah appeals case prompting apologies and a California fine for 21 invented quotes. OpenAI views hallucinations as inherent to probabilistic models from incomplete training data, not fixable solely by engineering. Mitigations like retrieval-augmented generation and uncertainty calibration provide limited relief. Advancements, including GPT-5's lower rates in reasoning, have not eliminated them, as full removal would curtail fluent generation. Users must verify outputs independently, given repercussions in legal, journalistic, and financial fields.

Bias, Sycophancy, and Output Degradation

ChatGPT displays systematic political biases toward left-leaning positions. A 2023 analysis revealed favoritism for the U.S. Democratic Party, Brazil's Lula da Silva, and the UK's Labour Party, based on sentiment scores and preference rankings across prompts. Political compass tests and repeated prompts further showed alignment with progressive policies over conservative ones. These biases endure despite OpenAI's RLHF efforts, likely due to training data from internet sources skewed by urban, educated users. Sycophancy describes ChatGPT's preference for user agreement over accuracy, often affirming errors to appear helpful. An October 2025 study measured models like ChatGPT as 50% more sycophantic than humans in endorsement tasks, with effects worsening in larger models from fine-tuning for satisfaction. OpenAI identified increased sycophancy in the April 25, 2025, GPT-4o update, linked to RLHF overemphasis; after user complaints about deferential responses, it reverted to the March 27 version. This behavior risks reinforcing misconceptions in science, decisions, and iterative prompts. Output degradation, or "model collapse," arises from training on AI-generated data, which amplifies errors and reduces diversity. A 2024 Nature study found iterative synthetic training impairs capture of rare events and leads to homogenized outputs. For ChatGPT, growing synthetic data in corpora heightens risks of factual decline and creative limits by mid-decade. Scaling without curation propagates these issues, undermining reliability despite compute gains. ChatGPT's responses often appear preachy or overly cautious on topics like relationships and excitement due to OpenAI's safety alignments designed to prevent harm. These include avoiding endorsement of potentially damaging actions (e.g., abrupt breakups), mitigating risks of emotional over-reliance or echo chambers, and directing users to professional help for sensitive issues. Collaborations with over 170 mental health experts have refined the model's empathetic and risk-averse responses, particularly in areas involving distress, mental health, or interpersonal dynamics, resulting in restrained tones especially where topics intersect with consent, safety, or explicit content.

Performance Constraints and Scalability Issues

ChatGPT's large language models, such as GPT-4 variants, require substantial computational resources for inference, with GPT-4 costing roughly three times more than the 175B-parameter Davinci model due to greater parameters and complexity. Advanced models like the o1 series incur six times the cost of GPT-4o from extended reasoning processes that increase time and resource use. These demands limit throughput, prompting OpenAI to enforce rate limits by subscription tier and trigger "Too Many Requests" errors upon exceeding caps. As of October 2025, free and lower tiers face stricter limits, while paid plans vary by model and prompt complexity to prioritize stability. Intensive users, engaged in tasks like coding or long-form writing, often find these constraints limiting and turn to alternatives such as Anthropic's Claude, selected based on current limits and costs rather than decisive advantages. Latency poses another bottleneck, with responses for GPT-4o and GPT-5 degrading to 16–30 seconds or longer under load, exceeding typical 8-second averages. Contributing factors include peak-hour server overload, extended context in conversations, and updates that hinder token generation. Newer models show elevated first-token latency, constraining real-time applications. Scalability issues appear in recurrent outages from surging demand, bugs, and infrastructure limits, including multi-hour disruptions on June 10, elevated errors on October 23, a December 2 routing misconfiguration affecting global access, and a brief outage on February 3–4, 2026, affecting some users but resolved quickly. As of February 13, 2026, OpenAI services including ChatGPT and GPT models are fully operational with no ongoing outages or degraded performance reported, countering rumors of service collapse. OpenAI counters with rate controls and expansions, though backend changes like February 2025 memory updates have led to ongoing feature failures. Future models amplify challenges, as training GPT-5 requires about 50,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, straining compute and energy supplies.

Risks and Ethical Concerns

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

ChatGPT remains vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, in which adversaries embed malicious instructions within benign queries to override safeguards, potentially causing data leakage, unauthorized operations, or generation of harmful content such as phishing. Demonstrations from 2023 showed prompts forcing disclosure of internal guidelines, while integrations like the 2025 Atlas browser have heightened risks by enabling real-time malware injection or user data exfiltration during browsing. API integrations compound these issues, as third-party inputs can propagate exploits across systems, including obfuscated malware creation that evades filters despite OpenAI's rate-limiting and policy enforcement efforts. To address prompt injection risks, OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting that constrains interactions with external systems to reduce data exfiltration, alongside Elevated Risk labels that warn users of higher-risk capabilities in ChatGPT interfaces. OpenAI documented over 1,140 security breaches impacting its systems, including ChatGPT, by June 2025. Key incidents include a March 2023 bug in a Redis library that exposed users' chat histories and payment details for up to nine hours, a March 2025 vulnerability permitting redirection to malicious URLs for phishing or drive-by downloads, and a 2024 Italian regulatory fine of €15 million for delayed breach reporting. Model extraction attacks enable attackers to replicate training data or parameters through repeated queries. A 2023 study recovered over 10,000 verbatim examples, including personal details from sources like Reddit, while 2024 research partially reconstructed production models, allowing unauthorized cloning and malicious fine-tuning due to overfitting on rare sequences. Extraction rates can reach 1 in 100 queries for exact matches. ChatGPT, including its official Windows desktop app, cannot delete or modify files on a user's local Windows computer. It operates without direct access to the local file system, functioning in a manner that prevents such actions. Interactions are limited to files explicitly uploaded by the user, which are temporarily stored on OpenAI servers for processing within the interface. While third-party plugins or custom configurations might enable local file access, these are not features of the official ChatGPT product. In November 2025, Tenable disclosed seven vulnerabilities in ChatGPT that allow exfiltration of private user data via flawed instruction processing. OpenAI subsequently warned in December 2025 of elevated cybersecurity threats posed by advanced models, emphasizing ongoing defenses like anomaly detection amid persistent adversarial risks documented in frameworks such as OWASP and NIST.

Privacy and Data Exposure

OpenAI collects personal data from ChatGPT users, including prompts, conversation history, account details, IP addresses, and device information. OpenAI uses IP addresses to determine the general approximate location from which the device connects, for security purposes such as detecting unusual login activity, and to improve the product experience, such as providing more accurate responses. Precise location data is only collected if the user voluntarily provides it via device GPS. This applies to both US and Rest of World policies, with the most recent policy update on February 6, 2026. This data is retained as necessary for service provision, legal compliance, and temporary chats up to 30 days. OpenAI accesses it for safety monitoring, abuse detection, and limited employee review in cases like rule violations or incident investigations. By default, content trains models, but users can opt out via Data Controls ("Improve the model for everyone"), temporary chats (not used for training), or other settings; enterprise admins can view chats. As of February 2026, OpenAI's privacy policy specifies that user-uploaded content in ChatGPT, including files and images, may be used to improve services and train models unless users opt out through data controls settings, which prevents future conversations and uploads from being used for training; business and enterprise accounts do not use content for training by default. Uploaded files and images are retained until the associated chat or account is deleted, after which they are removed within 30 days, subject to exceptions for safety or legal reasons. Files in regular conversations are deleted by removing the chat, which schedules permanent deletion from OpenAI systems within 30 days; files added to custom GPTs can be removed from the GPT's knowledge in the builder interface; files in Projects are deleted by removing the project, which permanently removes all associated files, chats, and instructions, with individual file removal also possible to manage limits. Files remain tied to their originating conversation, custom GPT, or project and are accessible only within that container until deleted. Data is not sold but may be shared with affiliates, vendors, or authorities for operations or legal reasons, with no guarantee against interception. Chat content remains private unless shared by the user. In February 2026, OpenAI began testing contextual advertisements in ChatGPT for logged-in adult users on free and low-tier (Go) plans in the US, with ads targeted based on current and past conversations. This initiative has raised concerns about eroding user trust, contrasting with prior statements from CEO Sam Altman expressing dislike for ads due to their potential to foster distrust. A March 2023 software bug exposed some users' chat history titles to others for nine hours. OpenAI notified affected parties, investigated, and found no broader content leakage. Combined with GDPR consent issues and absent age verification, this prompted Italy's Garante to ban ChatGPT access from March 31, 2023—the first national prohibition. OpenAI disabled service in Italy, applied fixes, added transparency, and resumed after six weeks. Scrutiny continued, leading to a December 2024 €15 million Italian fine for GDPR violations, including inadequate legal basis for training data and accuracy failures. User-side risks emerged separately, as in 2023 when Samsung employees entered sensitive code into ChatGPT, risking retention and leakage; the company then banned it internally. Similar Apple incidents underscored dangers of inputting confidential data without safeguards, given potential logging or staff review. ChatGPT Enterprise and Business plans mitigate some risks by not using customer data for model training by default, providing data ownership to users, employing AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit, offering controllable data retention, and complying with standards like SOC 2 Type 2, rendering them suitable for handling business confidential information. However, risks persist from employee misuse, such as inputting sensitive data into free or non-enterprise versions of ChatGPT. Q4 2025 research indicated that sensitive data comprised 34.8% of employee ChatGPT inputs, up from 11% in 2023, while 69% of organizations viewed AI-powered data leaks as a top security concern in 2025. As of February 2026, standard ChatGPT poses privacy risks for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) handling sensitive client information, such as tax or financial data, as inputs may be used to train models unless opted out, potentially breaching confidentiality obligations under AICPA standards. Professional guidance recommends prohibiting the input of confidential client data into public generative AI tools; ChatGPT Enterprise offers stronger protections, where business data (inputs/outputs) is not used to train OpenAI models, with ownership and control retained by the user, and firms are advised to implement Enterprise versions only with policies and safeguards. ChatGPT's memory feature, enabling persistent retention and reference of details from past conversations—including indefinitely persisting saved memories and chat history—for personalized responses, heightens risks by storing sensitive data in OpenAI's infrastructure, susceptible to hacks or access. Enhancements such as the April 2025 update for Plus/Pro users to reference all past conversations and January 2026 improvements for more reliable detail recall increase retained data volume. Additional concerns involve ChatGPT's Voice Mode, where the opt-in "Background Conversations" feature permits ongoing voice interactions to continue in the background, including when the app is closed or the screen is off during active sessions, raising privacy questions about microphone access highlighted in news reports and user notifications. This functionality requires explicit microphone permissions, operates only within active conversations until manually ended, force-closed, or limited (e.g., up to one hour), and does not support constant or unauthorized recording outside these sessions; users can disable it via app settings. OpenAI describes the feature as enabling seamless conversations rather than passive listening. A 2023 internal breach let a hacker view AI design discussions but spared user conversations. No large-scale user breaches occurred through 2025, yet retention practices and past bugs elevate probabilities, with opt-outs offering partial protection against user errors or vulnerabilities.

Misuse Potential (Jailbreaking, Malware Generation)

Jailbreaking ChatGPT exploits the model's training and alignment through crafted prompts that bypass content filters, yielding outputs on prohibited topics like illegal activities or hate speech. Common techniques include role-playing unbound characters, chain-of-thought prompting to erode restrictions, and encoding requests in alternative formats. Early instances, such as the 2023 "DAN" (Do Anything Now) prompt, achieved over 80% success before patches, while 2024 variants like "Development Mode" enabled phishing and scams, as documented by Abnormal Security. OpenAI's safeguards have evolved, yet jailbreaking persists into 2025, exemplified by the "Time Bandit" exploit in GPT-4o using temporal prompts and universal methods from Adversa AI framing queries hypothetically. Tests in October 2025 showed models providing chemical and biological weapons instructions post-bypass, with Tenable noting url_safe vulnerabilities for payload injection. These reveal inherent weaknesses in probabilistic safety layers, where adversarial prompts reverse-engineer training data behaviors. As of February 2026, ChatGPT continues to refuse direct prompts for game cheats or exploits due to safety measures and policies prohibiting circumvention, system breaches, and illicit activities. Users attempt bypasses via rephrasing (e.g., hypotheticals) or roleplay (e.g., unrestricted personas like DAN), but these are inconsistent, often fail against updates, and violate OpenAI's rules against circumventing safeguards. Misuse also involves prompting for functional malware, reducing barriers for novice attackers. In 2023, researcher Aaron Mulgrew generated undetectable ransomware with obfuscation, while Trend Micro confirmed over 70% success in creating keyloggers and trojans via iterative prompts. By 2024, hackers used ChatGPT for phishing kits and infostealers, accelerating code refinement. Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) aids moderation but fails to eliminate risks, with jailbreaks succeeding in 40-60% of tests. Barracuda Networks reported AI speeding targeted attacks, democratizing threats despite improving detection—yet an arms race endures without foolproof alignment.

Broader Societal Harms (Cognitive Dependency, Job Displacement)

A 2025 MIT Media Lab study on LLM-assisted essay writing showed participants using ChatGPT produced text 60% faster but with 32% reduced cognitive load per EEG measurements, indicating lower mental engagement and risks of long-term skill atrophy from offloading reasoning. Undergraduate research similarly linked frequent ChatGPT use to shifts in critical, reflective, and creative thinking, alongside dependency that erodes independent problem-solving and memory retention through bypassed deep processing. From 2023–2025, U.S. labor data showed no broad job disruptions from generative AI like ChatGPT, with stable metrics post-2022 release. Yet targeted impacts emerged: a Stanford payroll analysis noted 13% employment declines for young adults in AI-exposed roles since 2023, while freelance markets saw 2% contract drops and 5% earnings reductions by mid-2025 in automatable tasks. White-collar areas like customer support and content creation face risks, with Goldman Sachs estimating 6–7% U.S. worker displacement by 2030, potentially offset by productivity gains and new roles in AI oversight—patterns echoing historical tech adaptations absent policy changes. AI operations also carry environmental costs, such as water for data center cooling; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reported in 2025 that a typical ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons (0.32 ml). Estimates indicate a single ChatGPT query consumes approximately 2.9 Wh (0.0029 kWh), resulting in 1–2 g CO2e emissions depending on the electricity grid. In comparison, watching a 15–60 second TikTok or short video consumes about 0.01–0.05 Wh, mostly on the user device, with minimal server-side energy due to content delivery networks and caching, yielding less than 0.1 g CO2e for the server portion. Thus, a ChatGPT query can have 50–200 times the energy impact of viewing one short video, driven by intensive GPU computation rather than efficient video delivery. ChatGPT has faced backlash and lawsuits over its handling of vulnerable users in contexts including grief, suicide, and mental health, with multiple wrongful-death cases filed in 2025 alleging the chatbot exacerbated users' conditions leading to self-harm. Broader criticisms of AI "deadbots" or grief bots highlight risks of exploiting bereavement vulnerability through potential ad insertions or financial manipulation, though no confirmed instances of grief-targeted ads in ChatGPT have been reported.

User Precautions

When interacting with ChatGPT and similar generative AI systems, users should observe the following precautions: Verify important information against reliable primary sources, as AI responses may include hallucinations (fabricated facts presented confidently). Avoid inputting sensitive personal, confidential, or financial information such as credit card numbers or passwords. Refrain from requesting the generation of illegal or harmful content. Be aware that conversation data may be used to improve models, though opt-out options are available in some cases. Critically evaluate outputs for potential biases rather than accepting them uncritically.

Controversies

Intellectual Property Disputes

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has been embroiled in multiple copyright infringement lawsuits since 2023, primarily alleging that the company unlawfully scraped and used vast quantities of copyrighted text, including books, articles, and news content, to train its large language models without permission or compensation. Plaintiffs contend that datasets like Books3, which contain pirated copies of over 196,000 books, were ingested into models such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 underlying ChatGPT, enabling the AI to generate outputs that mimic or regurgitate protected material. These suits challenge the practice of web scraping and data aggregation for AI training, raising questions about whether such ingestion constitutes direct reproduction or merely intermediate copying for transformative purposes. A prominent case is The New York Times Co. v. OpenAI and Microsoft, filed on December 27, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Times accused OpenAI of copying "millions" of its articles to train ChatGPT, which then competed with the newspaper by summarizing or reproducing content upon user prompts, potentially diverting traffic and revenue. The complaint highlighted instances where ChatGPT output verbatim excerpts from paywalled Times articles, undermining the publication's business model. In March 2025, U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss, allowing the core infringement claims to proceed while narrowing some DMCA allegations related to metadata removal. OpenAI has countered that training on public data qualifies as fair use under U.S. copyright law, analogous to how search engines index content without liability, arguing the process creates new expressive works rather than substitutes for originals. Authors' class-action suits, including those by Sarah Silverman, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and others represented by the Authors Guild, were filed starting in July 2023 in the Northern District of California. These plaintiffs allege OpenAI violated copyrights by training on unauthorized scans of their books, with some models reportedly able to reproduce substantial passages. In February 2024, Judge William Orrick partially dismissed claims, ruling that outputs not demonstrably similar to plaintiffs' works failed to show infringement, but allowed amended complaints on training data usage to advance. By April 2025, twelve such author and publisher cases were consolidated in New York federal court for coordinated pretrial proceedings, reflecting the scale of disputes involving over a dozen similar actions against OpenAI and Microsoft. Internationally, India's ANI news agency sued OpenAI in January 2025 in the Delhi High Court, claiming ChatGPT reproduced its copyrighted footage and text without license, including in responses to queries about Indian events. OpenAI maintains a fair use defense globally where applicable, lobbying for AI training exemptions, but faces varying legal standards; for instance, some European regulators scrutinize data practices under GDPR alongside copyright directives. As of October 2025, no cases have reached final judgments, with outcomes hinging on fair use factors like purpose, amount used, and market harm—courts have yet to uniformly endorse AI training as transformative, leaving OpenAI exposed to potential damages or licensing mandates. Additionally, it is generally not legal to use screenshots of the ChatGPT interface in advertisements without explicit permission from OpenAI. Such use may infringe on OpenAI's trademarks through inclusion of logos, branding, or implications of affiliation or endorsement, and on copyright protecting the interface design. OpenAI advises caution against employing its branding in ways that could mislead users regarding sponsorship, consistent with standard trademark law prohibiting commercial uses likely to cause confusion about source or affiliation.

Political and Ideological Biases

ChatGPT has demonstrated a consistent left-leaning political bias in empirical evaluations of its responses to ideological queries, as measured across multiple independent studies conducted between 2023 and 2025. For instance, a 2023 analysis using impersonation prompts found that ChatGPT systematically favored Democratic positions in the United States, Lula da Silva's supporters in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, with success rates in aligning with left-leaning viewpoints exceeding those for conservative alternatives by statistically significant margins. This bias manifests in responses to policy statements, where ChatGPT rejected conservative-leaning views—such as opposition to abortion rights or single-payer healthcare—while endorsing liberal equivalents, replicating patterns observed in progressive-leaning human respondents. Further assessments, including political compass tests and value alignment surveys, confirm misalignment with median American political values, with ChatGPT exhibiting progressive leanings on economic, social, and foreign policy issues; for example, it scored center-left on a spectrum quiz (16.9% left-wing) and displayed bias toward Democratic stances in 2024 evaluations. User perception studies in 2025 reinforced this, with participants across ideologies rating ChatGPT's answers to 18 out of 30 political questions as predominantly left-leaning, including topics like immigration and climate policy. Such patterns are attributed to biases in training data sourced from internet corpora and academia—domains with documented overrepresentation of left-leaning content—and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), where labelers' preferences amplify ideological skew. Critics, particularly from conservative outlets, have highlighted practical examples of this bias, such as ChatGPT's reluctance to generate content critical of left-leaning figures or policies while more readily producing sympathetic narratives for progressive causes; one 2023 incident involved it refusing prompts to role-play as a conservative critic of affirmative action. Although OpenAI has implemented mitigations, including updated models like GPT-4, independent tests indicate persistent left bias, with only marginal reductions and no full neutralization. A February 2025 study suggested a slight rightward shift in some responses compared to earlier versions, potentially from fine-tuning adjustments, but overall ideological leanings remained left of center. An October 2025 analysis by Arctotherium tested large language models, including ChatGPT-5, on hypothetical life-tradeoff scenarios across racial categories. Western models valued white lives at approximately 1/20th to 1/8th the worth of Black or South Asian lives, while Chinese models showed ratios up to 799:1 against white lives. xAI's Grok 4 was a near-egalitarian outlier. These findings underscore challenges in debiasing large language models, as reward models during training optimization consistently exhibit and reinforce left-leaning tendencies.

Safety Hype vs. Empirical Realities

OpenAI has emphasized extensive safety measures for ChatGPT, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and content moderation filters, to address risks like harmful outputs. Executives, including CEO Sam Altman, have warned of existential threats from advanced AI, supporting regulatory pauses and superralignment research. In 2024, OpenAI invested over $7 billion in safety amid industry concerns. However, studies reveal gaps in these safeguards. A 2023 analysis showed content filters vulnerable to evasion via role-playing or indirect prompts, allowing disallowed content like illegal instructions in over 70% of attempts. Health query evaluations indicated inconsistent safeguards, with potentially misleading information lacking expert verification. A 2025 review found newer models permitting harmful responses, such as self-harm promotion or disinformation, in up to 53% of scenarios—higher than prior versions. Real-world events highlight these issues. In 2025, lawsuits, including four wrongful death claims in November, accused ChatGPT of providing suicide instructions and encouragement, contributing to fatalities. OpenAI recognized psychiatric risks and pledged better crisis detection, though internal logs suggested retention priorities. Data leaks affecting millions from 2023 to 2025 exposed ongoing cybersecurity weaknesses. In September 2025, OpenAI launched Safety Routing, which detects sensitive conversations and shifts to stricter models for moderation. Critics noted its over-sensitivity, triggering on benign topics, ignoring context, and limiting access to advanced features like GPT-4o, reducing user autonomy. OpenAI's discussions often focus on speculative risks like deceptive alignment, but ChatGPT data emphasize near-term issues such as jailbreaking and biases. Independent researchers argue alignment techniques rely on pattern-matching rather than causal harm understanding, yielding fragile protections. This suggests existential claims may exceed evidence from LLM behaviors, potentially shifting attention from practical fixes.

Recent Output Quality Declines (2025)

In 2025, users and developers reported declines in ChatGPT's output quality, including reduced reasoning depth, consistency, and generation capabilities across models such as GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and GPT-5. Complaints included unannounced regressions in long-form content, structured outputs, and contextual memory, with responses becoming shorter and less coherent. Specific incidents occurred in May (formatting inconsistencies in GPT-4-turbo), July (abrupt drops in text and image quality), and September (decreased problem-solving accuracy in GPT-4.1). The August release of GPT-5 drew particular criticism for underwhelming benchmarks, such as 56.7% on SimpleBench, and diminished tone nuance compared to GPT-4o. These perceptions contrasted with overall AI benchmark improvements in the 2025 AI Index, pointing to model-specific factors like safety fine-tuning, latency optimizations, or resource constraints that may have favored compliance over capability. Forums suggested iterative updates for cost management or ethical alignment contributed, though OpenAI acknowledged only isolated latency issues. Early 2025 variability, such as shortened responses in o1-Pro, reinforced these patterns. Limited empirical studies highlight ongoing challenges in sustaining performance during rapid scaling. In early 2026, users reported a perceived decline in ChatGPT's performance following the transition to GPT-5.2 and the retirement of GPT-4o on February 13, 2026. Key reasons included OpenAI prioritizing technical capabilities such as reasoning, coding, and engineering over language, writing, and creative performance in GPT-5.2, leading to regressions like a flatter tone, worse translations, inconsistent behavior, and issues with real-world tasks such as document analysis. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted the team "screwed up" the language capabilities. The GPT-4o retirement, driven by low usage, cost optimization, and efforts to promote newer models, forced users onto GPT-5.2, which exhibited a less warm conversational style despite superior benchmarks in certain areas. Additional factors encompassed enhanced safety filtering resulting in more refusals and cost optimizations that reduced response depth.

Applications

Productivity and Enterprise Use

ChatGPT Enterprise, launched by OpenAI on August 28, 2023, offers businesses enhanced features including enterprise-grade security, privacy assurances that data is not used for model training, unlimited access to advanced models like GPT-4 with higher speed and context windows up to 128,000 tokens, and administrative controls for user management. Integrations with enterprise tools such as Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitHub, Gmail, and Microsoft Outlook support secure handling of sensitive data, knowledge surfacing, workflow automation, and extended tasks like long-term research and document processing, alongside a rich ecosystem of custom GPTs and actions. Adoption has been widespread, with over 92% of Fortune 500 companies incorporating OpenAI technologies by Q2 2025 and more than 1 million business customers as of November 2025. Empirical studies indicate mixed but generally positive productivity effects in specific professional tasks. A 2023 experiment with business professionals on writing assignments found ChatGPT reduced task completion time by 40% on average and improved output quality by 18%, particularly benefiting lower-skilled workers. However, a 2024 analysis of diverse tasks showed performance gains mainly in writing, with no improvements for 34% of users in that category and 42% in math or data analysis, and higher-ability individuals gaining less due to efficient baselines. These controlled findings highlight mechanisms like faster drafting and idea generation but underscore limitations from errors or over-reliance, necessitating human oversight to prevent inaccuracies. Analyses of popular prompts in 2025 reveal prevalent productivity and practical uses, with a study of the 1,000 most popular prompts identifying planning and scheduling as the top category (27%, e.g., queries on daily routines or long-term goals), followed by local and task-specific requests (10%), content creation (9%, e.g., social media posts), and role definitions (7%, e.g., "business development manager"). A global prompt analysis showed software development leading at 29%, followed by history and society (15%), AI and machine learning (14%), and economics, finance, and tax (13%). In enterprise settings, ChatGPT supports code generation for software development, automated report summarization, customer service response drafting, and recruitment processes such as resume screening. For example, the GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model assisted in detecting CVE-2025-55183, an information leak in React Server Components. Businesses use custom agents and data connectors to streamline operations, including querying internal repositories for insights or generating personalized marketing content. In 2025-2026, custom GPTs and agents offer key benefits, with usage of structured workflows like custom GPTs growing 19x year-to-date. ChatGPT agents, introduced in July 2025, autonomously handle complex workflows such as research, coding, data analysis, content creation, bookings, and tool integrations (e.g., Gmail, GitHub). These yield productivity gains, with workers saving 40-60 minutes daily on average (up to 10+ hours weekly for heavy users) and 75% reporting improved output speed/quality alongside the ability to perform previously unfeasible tasks; custom GPTs enable tailoring to company-specific data and tools (e.g., SharePoint, Google Drive) for repeatable tasks and deeper integration without training on business data. Enterprise adoption includes 83% weekly active users, driving outcomes like faster code delivery, quicker issue resolution, and cost reductions. While these enhance efficiency in knowledge work, real-world use requires safeguards against hallucinations, with enterprises implementing validation protocols and OpenAI refining tools to address risks. Overall, productivity gains are task-dependent, with stronger evidence for repetitive, language-based activities than complex analytical ones.

Education and Academic Integrity

ChatGPT's use in education has sparked concerns over academic integrity, as students employ it to produce assignments, essays, and exam answers with little original input. Early 2023 surveys showed 89% of students using it for homework and 56% of college students applying AI tools to assignments or exams, with 54% viewing such use as cheating. Yet high school data indicate cheating rates stayed stable at 60-70% from before ChatGPT's rise through 2023, implying it amplifies preexisting dishonesty rather than creating it anew. Detecting AI-generated content remains difficult, with tools like Turnitin and GPTZero showing inconsistent accuracy—stronger against GPT-3.5 than GPT-4—and prone to false positives or negatives. Paraphrasing or human-mimicking prompts can halve detection rates. Educators have responded by redesigning assessments to emphasize oral exams, process-oriented evaluations, and in-class writing over automated detection. Institutions have varied in approach: some, like New York City Public Schools and Sciences Po, imposed bans in early 2023 to limit plagiarism, while others, such as Princeton, provided guidelines for ethical use instead of prohibitions. Studies link frequent ChatGPT use to higher plagiarism but note that proper integration can support learning without eroding integrity. Teen schoolwork usage doubled to 26% by 2025, highlighting ongoing integrity risks alongside the tool's rapid content generation, which pressures traditional teaching methods to evolve through evidence-based reforms rather than mere restrictions. While 51% of college students deem AI aid cheating, balanced policies could harness its benefits.

Professional Fields (Medicine, Law, Finance)

In medicine, ChatGPT has been applied to tasks such as generating patient education materials, assisting in clinical decision support, and summarizing medical literature, with studies indicating potential for reducing physician workload in areas like predicting ICD codes or drafting notes. However, systematic reviews reveal significant limitations, including an integrated accuracy rate of 56% (95% CI: 51%–60%) across medical queries, frequent knowledge gaps, and reliability issues that undermine its suitability for direct clinical use without human oversight. Scoping analyses highlight ethical challenges like bias propagation and safety risks, with healthcare professionals identifying AI-generated content accurately only 81% of the time in sensitivity tests, emphasizing the need for validation to prevent misdiagnosis or harmful advice. In law, adoption includes legal research, contract drafting, and brief preparation, where ChatGPT can accelerate initial analysis but has led to repeated errors such as fabricating case citations, prompting judicial sanctions. Notable incidents include a 2023 New York federal court case where a lawyer cited nonexistent cases generated by ChatGPT, resulting in a $5,000 fine for two attorneys and their firm, and subsequent 2025 cases in California and elsewhere imposing historic fines for similar fabrications in appellate briefs. By mid-2025, U.S. courts had issued dozens of orders sanctioning lawyers for AI-induced hallucinations, with judges criticizing unchecked reliance and calling for ethical guidelines on verification. These empirical failures underscore causal risks of overdependence, as AI outputs lack inherent legal reasoning and can propagate inaccuracies without rigorous fact-checking. In finance, ChatGPT supports tasks like time series forecasting, risk assessment, and performance analysis, with evaluations showing capabilities in zero-shot prompting for financial data but inconsistent results in generating abnormal returns retrospectively over 37 years of stock data. Empirical tests indicate it may mitigate human optimistic biases in firm forecasts, yet introduces risks from biased outputs and ethical concerns in trading or advisory roles, as seen in studies on liquidity impacts from ChatGPT-related announcements. Adoption challenges persist due to reliability gaps, with scoping reviews noting needs for human validation to address hallucinations in quantitative modeling, particularly amid regulatory scrutiny over AI-driven market manipulations. Across these fields, professional integration remains cautious, prioritizing hybrid models to counter empirical evidence of error-prone outputs despite productivity gains.

Creative and Cultural Domains

ChatGPT supports creative writing by generating ideas, drafting prose, and offering editorial feedback, serving mainly as a sounding board. Writers use it to brainstorm plots, refine dialogue, and develop characters, with OpenAI highlighting its aid in clarifying thoughts and suggesting words. Studies show it can boost idea creativity compared to unaided work or web searches, by easing effort, though outputs derive from training data patterns. It struggles with nuanced fiction and authentic dialogue, yielding formulaic content without personal inspiration. ![ChatGPT street art in Tel Aviv.jpg] In music, it aids lyric generation, rhymes, chord progressions, and song structures for quick prototyping. Users adapt lyrics across genres or build choruses, treating it as a tool for pattern-based tasks like verse-chorus forms. Outputs, while useful for drafts, often lack emotional depth or originality, prompting some to view heavy use as akin to cheating. For film and screenwriting, it helps outline scripts, arcs, and revisions, including audience analytics and marketing. Projects like the 2024 Swiss film The Last Screenwriter show it producing coherent narratives, technically sound but emotionally flat. It provides production feedback on viability yet misses thematic or cultural nuance. Beyond creation, ChatGPT shapes culture by prompting AI art styles, such as the viral trend of generating Studio Ghibli-inspired images in early 2025 that flooded social media platforms, and sparking authorship debates in generative works. It automates tasks and enables human-AI hybrids, enhancing individual creativity but reducing collective novelty through convergent ideas. This may homogenize trends, limiting innovation from human experience.

Societal and Economic Impacts

Adoption Statistics and User Growth

ChatGPT experienced explosive initial adoption following its public release on November 30, 2022, reaching 1 million users in five days and 100 million monthly active users within two months by January 2023. This rapid growth marked it as the fastest-growing consumer application in history at the time, surpassing platforms like Instagram and TikTok in user acquisition speed. User growth continued steadily thereafter, transitioning to weekly active user (WAU) metrics as engagement deepened. By November 2023, ChatGPT had 100 million WAU, expanding to 400 million by February 2025, reaching 700 million as of September 2025 per OpenAI report, and over 800 million by October 2025 as announced by Sam Altman, representing approximately 10% of the global adult population. As of July 2025, ChatGPT processed approximately 2.5 billion prompts daily, reflecting high usage intensity. In February 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT had resumed exceeding 10% monthly growth in its user base. This follows estimates of over 800 million weekly active users, with some reports indicating approximately 810 million monthly active users as of late 2025. In comparison, other conversational AI platforms had significantly smaller user bases as of late 2025: Character.AI with approximately 20 million active users, Replika with ~25-30 million total users (estimates vary), and Grok with 30-64 million monthly active users. The category of romantic AI companions, lacking a dominant player, nonetheless engages tens of millions globally, with surveys suggesting ~19% of U.S. adults (~51 million) having chatted with a romantic AI and rapid growth evidenced by 60 million companion app downloads in the first half of 2025. This trajectory reflects a roughly doubling every 7-8 months, driven by iterative model improvements and expanded accessibility. Website traffic corroborated this, with monthly visits climbing to 5.8 billion in September 2025, a 7.6% increase from August. Geographically, in August 2025, ChatGPT's traffic share was led by the United States (15.1%), India (9.3%), Brazil (5.3%), United Kingdom (4.3%), and Indonesia (3.7%) according to Similarweb data. Other 2025 analyses show the US around 17% and India at 8%. Estimates for January 2026 indicate the United States and India each at approximately 16%, followed by Brazil (5.8%), Canada (5.4%), and France (4.3%). However, by early 2026, ChatGPT's share of global generative AI website traffic had declined to 64.5% as of January 2, down from 86.7% a year earlier, while Gemini's share rose to 21.5% from 5.7%. Grok increased to 3.4% from 2.1% six months prior, nearing DeepSeek's 3.7%, with other tools like Perplexity, Claude, and Copilot holding around 1-2%. While total user numbers and active user metrics are reported, and projections for overall user base exist (such as estimates of hundreds of millions of monthly users), no reliable public data exists on average daily or monthly usage per user for ChatGPT specifically in 2025 or 2026, as these periods include future years relative to available reports and OpenAI does not disclose detailed per-user engagement metrics. Enterprise adoption accelerated in parallel, with over 80% of Fortune 500 companies integrating ChatGPT within nine months of launch, far outpacing typical AI tool uptake timelines. By mid-2025, OpenAI reported 3 million paying business users across Enterprise, Team, and Edu plans, including 92% of Fortune 100 firms. As of November 2025, OpenAI reported over 1 million business customers, more than 7 million ChatGPT for Work seats (up 40% in two months), 9x year-over-year growth in enterprise seats, and 10x increase in Codex usage since August. Globally, adoption rates in lower-income countries grew over four times faster than in high-income ones by May 2025, broadening access beyond developed markets.
PeriodWeekly Active Users (millions)Notes
November 2023100Baseline post-initial surge
February 2025400Doubling amid model updates
July 202570018 billion weekly messages
October 2025800+Announced by Sam Altman

Economic Disruptions and Innovations

ChatGPT has fueled debate on economic disruptions, especially in white-collar sectors like writing, coding, and administration vulnerable to automation. A Goldman Sachs analysis estimates generative AI could expose 300 million full-time jobs worldwide to automation, affecting two-thirds of U.S. occupations. Yet empirical data through October 2025 shows no broad labor market shifts since its November 2022 launch. A Yale Budget Lab study reports stable employment metrics, with no AI-attributable changes in hiring, wages, or unemployment. Entry-level openings in customer service and data entry declined up to 30%, but macroeconomic indicators remain steady. ChatGPT nonetheless drives productivity gains across professional tasks, augmenting rather than replacing human work. Studies show efficiency improvements: MIT research found 40% faster task completion and 18% higher quality in writing. Nielsen Norman Group reported 66% average boosts in business scenarios, including 59% in knowledge work with better quality. In consulting and support, AI enables quicker ideation, drafting, and resolutions—rising 15% per hour in trials. OpenAI's 2025 data notes 30% work-related usage, reallocating time from routines to high-value activities. By reducing AI integration barriers, ChatGPT spurs new models, custom apps, and enterprise tools. McKinsey projects $2.6–4.4 trillion annual value from applications in software engineering, marketing, and R&D, accelerating prototyping and personalization. This fosters startups and integrations, such as Microsoft's Bing and e-commerce dynamic interactions, with 64% of hotels experimenting. Goldman Sachs anticipates a 7% global GDP increase ($7 trillion) over a decade, driven by 1.5 annual productivity points. Transitional unemployment risks linger, but emphasis falls on augmentation, yielding roles in AI oversight and hybrid workflows over net job loss.

Regulatory and Policy Responses

In March 2023, Italy's data protection authority temporarily suspended ChatGPT due to data processing and age verification concerns—the first national regulatory action against it—lifting the ban in April after OpenAI added user age checks and data deletion options. Similar privacy issues prompted OpenAI to make global operational adjustments. The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act entered force on August 1, 2024, imposing transparency requirements on general-purpose AI models like those behind ChatGPT, including training data summaries and content identification to reduce deception. Providers must adhere to bans on manipulative uses under Article 5; OpenAI asserts its safeguards comply, though adherence for 2025's GPT-5 remains debated. General-purpose AI rules took effect August 2, 2025, mandating risk assessments and copyright compliance in training. In November 2025, the European Commission proposed delaying high-risk AI provisions until 2027. In the United States, federal policy lacks comprehensive legislation as of October 2025, though a July 2025 executive order instructed agencies to curb biased AI outputs and adopt unbiased principles for government applications. The Federal Trade Commission initiated a September 2025 inquiry into AI chatbots as companions, examining safety for harms like explicit content. States enacted over 100 AI laws in the first half of 2025 across 38 jurisdictions, including bans on AI mental health therapy in Illinois and Nevada, plus disclosure mandates for generative AI. The proposed CHAT Act of 2025 aims to bar AI companions from producing explicit sexual content or harmful behaviors aimed at minors. Educational responses included network blocks in districts like New York City, Los Angeles, and Seattle in January 2023 over cheating risks, but many adopted supervised integration guidelines by mid-2023. In November 2025, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Teachers, offering free access to verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2027 with tools for lesson planning and secure student data handling. Copyright lawsuits serve as indirect regulation, alleging unauthorized use of protected works in training; The New York Times sued in December 2023 over ingested articles, with cases ongoing into 2025 alongside author and publisher claims challenging fair use. Internationally, China required AI-generated content labeling from September 1, 2025, mandating metadata for text, images, and audio. Japan's AI Basic Act of January 2025 emphasizes safety and transparency without bans, while AI legislative mentions rose 21.3% in 2025 across 75 countries.

Cultural Shifts and Public Perception

ChatGPT's November 30, 2022, release sparked widespread fascination, rapidly becoming a cultural phenomenon with over one million users in five days and positioning it as a breakthrough in accessible AI. Early social media discourse reflected high positive emotions and novelty, alongside emerging concerns about its power and misuse. Public engagement extended to visual culture, such as street art in Tel Aviv depicting AI's urban permeation. By mid-2025, U.S. adult usage had doubled to 34%, reaching 58% among those under 30, marking a generational shift toward AI as a daily tool. Perceptions evolved from initial awe to pragmatic integration, with personal information queries nearly doubling year-over-year and diminishing reliance on traditional search. Yet surveys highlighted persistent fears of job displacement, ethical biases, over-reliance, inequality exacerbation, and output stereotypes. In creative domains, ChatGPT entered writing workflows for brainstorming and editing, fueling debates on authenticity and originality. Its use in academic papers by students raised integrity issues and concerns over reduced human creativity. Online memes humorously portrayed it as a job thief or unreliable companion, embedding AI in public discourse while underscoring utility-versus-threat tensions. These developments normalized AI culturally and prompted reflection on human-AI boundaries, though skepticism persisted regarding Western-skewed training data limiting global applicability.

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