OpenAI reveals ChatGPT’s most popular features – and the top one might surprise you

• ChatGPT is three years old on Sunday November 30
• Uploading an image to ChatGPT is more popular than creating an AI image
• The most-used ChatGPT task at work is editing and critiquing text

ChatGPT turns three years old on Sunday 30 November, and to celebrate, OpenAI has decided to share some statistics it’s been holding close to its chest about how people use the world’s favourite AI tool.

ChatGPT launched as a fairly unknown “research preview” back in 2022, and today it’s the most popular chatbot on the planet, answering around 29,000 messages per second.

According to OpenAI, 800 million people a week use it for everything from planning their next road trip to picking out the ripest produce in a grocery store.