Fascinating data from OpenAI — across 1.1 million conversations, here’s what people actually use ChatGPT for:

• 28% → Writing (editing, summarizing, critiquing)
• 28% → Practical advice (teaching, self-care, guidance)
• 21% → Seeking information
• 7% → Technical help (coding, math, data)
• 6% → Multimedia (images, video outputs)

Less about defining the future, and more about making sense of the present.

It’s also worth asking: where does that "reasonable sounding" fact you just got from ChatGPT actually come from? The training data matters more than most people realize.

Reddit leads as a source — ahead of Wikipedia by nearly 2×. Mapquest is apparently still relevant enough to make the list. YouTube is in the mix too, with all its breadth and unevenness.

Are these the best sources of truth? That’s worth sitting with before treating any output as authoritative.