Claim LD08-SL-C21 (v1.0)
A study of ChatGPT use co-written by OpenAI staff reports that ChatGPT had been adopted by around 10% of the world’s adult population by July 2025 and that non-work messages grew from 53% to more than 70% of use, from conversations classified by a privacy-preserving automated pipeline; the code is “available on request.”
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (SOURCE_POSITION) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (ABSTRACT_ONLY) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A description of AI use outside ChatGPT, or of business and API use
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan & Wadman, “How People Use ChatGPT,” NBER Working Paper 34255, 2025
- Source type (field 7)
- WORKING_PAPER (as printed: “Academic working paper”)
- Institutional position
- AI developer co-authored (at least two of seven authors disclose that they are OpenAI employees; one is a Harvard economist)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD08-SL-C21.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan & Wadman, “How People Use ChatGPT,” NBER Working Paper 34255, 2025” → SRC-SL-CHATTERJI-ET-AL-NBER-W34255--v1.0 — Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan & Wadman, “How People Use ChatGPT,” NBER Working Paper 34255, 2025; class WORKING_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD08-SL-C21 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | A study of ChatGPT use co-written by OpenAI staff reports that ChatGPT had been adopted by around 10% of the world’s adult population by July 2025 and that non-work messages grew from 53% to more than 70% of use, from conversations classified by a privacy-preserving automated pipeline; the code is “available on request.” | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Data and access | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan & Wadman, “How People Use ChatGPT,” NBER Working Paper 34255, 2025 | source_ids: SRC-SL-CHATTERJI-ET-AL-NBER-W34255 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Academic working paper | classes: WORKING_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | AI developer co-authored (at least two of seven authors disclose that they are OpenAI employees; one is a Harvard economist) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | ChatGPT consumer plans, November 2022 to July 2025 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Automated classification of a sample of conversations | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | A representative sample of ChatGPT conversations (size not read) | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Automated classification pipeline inside OpenAI (details not read) | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Not applicable | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | About 10% of the world’s adults by July 2025; non-work share 53% to more than 70%; practical guidance, seeking information and writing nearly 80% of conversations; programming a relatively small share | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | What people use one developer’s chatbot for | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A description of AI use outside ChatGPT, or of business and API use | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: ABSTRACT_ONLY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Only the NBER abstract and disclosure page were read; the full paper and its validation were not; data access terms beyond code on request are not stated there | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Independent logs give a different work share: LD08-SL-C22 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Global platform / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Reports higher growth in lower-income countries | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-08, D3, D2 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Full text with validation details, or independent data on the same population | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: SOURCE_POSITION |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-16 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-08 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN); D2 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 be022c18802f319d457ad0e1107df15099560cba40ef154f2693607891fa95f4.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C21 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 21 — LD08-SL-C21” SHA-256
2e74881df7bf05dfef13b0af08474249604b045d26ad84886760d38be41bac63; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C21--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C21 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-08 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C21 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-CHATTERJI-ET-AL-NBER-W34255--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 21 — LD08-SL-C21 cites "Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan & Wadman, “How People Use ChatGPT,” NBER Working Paper 34255, 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-CHATTERJI-ET-AL-NBER-W34255--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Chatterji, Cunningham, Deming, Hitzig, Ong, Shan & Wadman, “How People Use ChatGPT,” NBER Working Paper 34255, 2025".