Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

pewresearch.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 68 posts

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#31

Post by chatmasta »

RheingoldRiver wrote: post #10

The original headline says "but few have tried it," but reaching over 1/10 of the population as actual users in under 6 months seems crazy impressive right? And also, that a quarter of the people who have heard of your product have also used it? I would say both of these numbers are really impressive, not just the first one.

It definitely sounds impressive, yeah. Does anyone have data on products with similar growth trajectories? I'm thinking of Google, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and more faddy trends like Pokemon Go.

Unlike some of those, ChatGPT seems like it has real staying power. I'd love to see their retention numbers.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#32

Post by chatmasta »

lucb1e wrote: post #28
raphaelmerx wrote: post #23

> This survey was conducted among 10,701 U.S. adults from March 13 to 19, 2023 Very possible this stat has increased in the last two months, would be interested to see the trend here

What I find makes it a lot more accessible is third party sites that don't require you to identify with personal information before you're allowed to use it. These seem to be popping up more and more and lets me feel like I can talk without it being added to a permanent record somewhere. Sure, you can subpoena my ISP and get the IP+datetime turned into a subscriber, but that's different from tying it all to my phone…

I didn't need to provide a phone number to OpenAI when I signed up for ChatGPT via OAuth with my Google account (which also has no device or phone number associated with it). But maybe I was just lucky enough to register before the requirement existed.

I did need to put some effort into configuring TOTP 2FA for the Google account without first giving Google a phone number, but I was able to do it by simulating a WebAuthn device with DevTools, which satisfied the pre-requisite of an existing hardware token or phone number method of 2FA that I needed to gain the ability to enable TOTP 2FA.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#33

Post by SeanAnderson »

chatmasta wrote: post #31
RheingoldRiver wrote: post #10

The original headline says "but few have tried it," but reaching over 1/10 of the population as actual users in under 6 months seems crazy impressive right? And also, that a quarter of the people who have heard of your product have also used it? I would say both of these numbers are really impressive, not just the first one.

It definitely sounds impressive, yeah. Does anyone have data on products with similar growth trajectories? I'm thinking of Google, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and more faddy trends like Pokemon Go. Unlike some of those, ChatGPT seems like it has real staying power. I'd love to see their retention numbers.

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/29174.jpeg Comes to mind

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#34

Post by sour-taste »

Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/

47th in the US:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/

I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#36

Post by lucb1e »

chatmasta wrote: post #32
lucb1e wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I find makes it a lot more accessible is third party sites that don't require you to identify with personal information before you're allowed to use it. These seem to be popping up more and more and lets me feel like I can talk without it being added to a permanent record somewhere. Sure, you can subpoena my ISP and get the IP+datetime turned into a subscriber, but that's different from tying it all to my phone…

I didn't need to provide a phone number to OpenAI when I signed up for ChatGPT via OAuth with my Google account (which also has no device or phone number associated with it). But maybe I was just lucky enough to register before the requirement existed. I did need to put some effort into configuring TOTP 2FA for the Google account without first giving Google a phone number, but I was able to do it by simulating a WebA…

Google is one of the bigcorps that has required a phone number based on secret sauce for quite a few years now, I think they may have been one of the first to demand it. Back then, one of the factors was whether your IP address had been used for signups previously but there were and are probably more ingredients that go into the formula. Registering from a clean phone without any SIM would often work when the web registration form did not on that same IP address, but again, only once or twice, and the account iirc often asked for a phone number if you then use it outside of that phone.

You also can't keep signing up for a Google account with the same phone number. It'll say it has been used too often for a few days iirc and then back off again (not sure how often you can repeat that). Otherwise that could be a usable proxy for hiding the phone number from the target site, depending on whether Google gives that information to the third party you're signing up for.

Some of my old Google accounts also don't have a phone number attached, but using that for signups in various places would be an identity as stable as having a phone number.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#37

Post by tssva »

treeman79 wrote: post #5
lagniappe wrote: post #2

I'm curious what the distribution is with relation to how it is being used.

All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year. School requires multiple paragraphs per student.

That seems insane to me. My daughter's report card has one of about 5 canned single line comments which teachers can choose from. Occasionally we will get an email with some further input around report card time. My daughter is in high school now but this has been the same since elementary school.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#38

Post by solarkraft »

negamax wrote: post #8
tail_exchange wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who never used GPT-4, what is so good about it?

Plugins and web browsing. You can enable web browsing for it. It will search the internet for you and read the articles, sites and get back with some pretty decent information

Doesn't Phind already do this well? FWIW I keep "best model" (that should be GPT-4) off because I just find it too slow and it doesn't seem like that much of an improvement.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#39

Post by usaar333 »

beebmam wrote: post #3

I wonder how many have paid for access to GPT-4. GPT-4 was a total game changer for me.

I'd guess well under 1%. It's at 15% extremely useful for the users - maybe 5% of those are willing to pay?

That still is huge though. 500k paying American users alone.

Fwiw, I think people's experiences may vary to be willing to pay. I find the slowness of GPT-4 to mostly offset the intelligence gains on net - hasn't been a game changer for most applications (and bing covers the rest)

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

#40

Post by chatmasta »

lucb1e wrote: post #36
chatmasta wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't need to provide a phone number to OpenAI when I signed up for ChatGPT via OAuth with my Google account (which also has no device or phone number associated with it). But maybe I was just lucky enough to register before the requirement existed. I did need to put some effort into configuring TOTP 2FA for the Google account without first giving Google a phone number, but I was able to do it by simulating a WebA…

Google is one of the bigcorps that has required a phone number based on secret sauce for quite a few years now, I think they may have been one of the first to demand it. Back then, one of the factors was whether your IP address had been used for signups previously but there were and are probably more ingredients that go into the formula. Registering from a clean phone without any SIM would often work when the web reg…

Yeah, I haven't gone to great lengths to hide my identity. I just wanted an account for shitposting on YouTube comments. I'm sure the feds can find me if they don't like what I'm asking Chat GPT, but at least my conversations won't show up in the results of any JOIN queries for my phone number or email address.
Post reply on HN