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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

Better Offline. I'm sure you despise me for that. Not really. I know you've all been very kind with your messages on Reddit and over email. Thank you so much. But today I have a really fun episode. I'm joined by Washington Post reporter Gerrit DeVink,

who recently put out a story analyzing 47,000 chat GPT conversations to find out what people actually use this large language model-powered service for. Garrett, what do people use chat GPT for?

I mean, it's such a great question and one that I've kind of become more and more fascinated with because I think we all know what we use

chat GPT for, you know, at least if you do use it. And I think you may know what, you know,

your peers, your colleagues, your friends, your family use chat GPT for. But I think a lot of people are extrapolating that, you know, your peers, your colleagues, your friends, your family use chat GPT for.

But I think a lot of people are extrapolating that, you know, everyone's like me.

They ask really smart questions.

They're using it for, you know, really important work.

And really, it's a lot broader than that.

And despite these giant numbers, you know, OpenAI

loves to talk about how 800 million people are using chat GPT. I mean, it's, it's been hard to

really put our arms around, you know, what does that actually look like? I mean, is everyone

using it for work? Is everyone using it for therapy? Does everyone, does everyone have an AI girlfriend?

Does everyone just using it for, you know, searching the web, you know, a Google replacement?

And, you know, obviously these things are all, you know, when you have 800 million people,

you have all of the above. But I think our data set and the story we did, you know,

in my view, was one of the, the first real sort of

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