have you wondered how many of these are bots leveraging free chatgpt with proxied vpn IPs?
I'm a ChatGPT paying user but I know no one who's not a developer on my personal circles who also is one.
maybe im an exeception
edit: I guess 400M global users being the US 300M citizens isn't out of scope for such a highly used product amongst a 7B population
But social media like instagram or fb feels like had network effects going for them making their growth faster
and thus maybe why openai is exploring that idea idk
Pretty much everyone in high school or college is using them. Also everyone whose job is to produce some kind of content or data analysis. That's already a lot of people.