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OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

via MIT Technology Review

March 21, 2025

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OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it affect us? Does it make us more or less lonely? These are some of the questions OpenAI set out to investigate, in partnership with the MIT Media Lab, in a pair of new studies. 

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