How People Use ChatGPT 📊 🧭 Practical guidance — 28.3% (Tutoring, how-to advice, health, self-care) ✍️ Writing — 28.1% (Edit, critique, personal writing, translation, fiction) 🔍 Seeking information — 21.3% (Specific facts, products, recipes) 🧠 Technical help — 7.5% (Programming, math, data analysis) 🖼️ Multimedia — 6.0% (Images, media generation & analysis) 🗣️ Self-expression — 4.3% (Relationships, reflection, chit-chat) ❓ Other / unknown — 4.6% Source: OpenAI usage research (via A16Z)