For the first time, we have a public, raw, unfiltered log of what people actually think about and worry about—not the curated, performative versions they post on social media.
The article's list (from "hair removal" to "paracetamol overdose" to "analyze my boyfriend") says it all. It's a mirror of our mundane anxieties, our deep fears, and our loneliness, all in one place.
This is less a story about AI and more a story about us.
v7engine•1h ago
thewebguyd•1h ago
> A random sample of 500 conversations in The Post’s corpus was classified by topic using human review, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.36 percent. A sample of 2,000 conversations, including the initial 500, was classified with AI using methodologies described by OpenAI in its Affective Use and How People Use ChatGPT reports, using gpt-4o and gpt-5, respectively.
If they were on the archive they must have been shared publicly by the user right?