Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “…The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 promised to usher in a new age of artificial intelligence. But until now, we’ve had little insight into how AI chatbots are actually being used in the wild. So The Washington Post looked at nearly 200,000 English-language conversations from the research data set WildChat, which includes messages from two AI chatbots built on the same underlying technology as ChatGPT. These conversations make up one of the largest public databases of human-bot interaction in the real world. Researchers say these conversations are largely representative of how people use chatbots, such as ChatGPT…The Post’s final analysis included nearly 40,000 conversations with WildChat, focusing on the first prompt submitted each day by each user. Here’s what The Post learned about how thousands of people are using chatbots…”