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by jamilton 164 days ago
https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-...

"..our initial analysis estimates that around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent and 0.05% of messages contain explicit or implicit indicators of suicidal ideation or intent."

Roughly 700 million weekly active users, it's more like 1 million people discussing suicide with ChatGPT every week.

For reference, 12.8 million Americans are reported as thinking about suicide and 1.5 million are reported as attempting suicide in a year.