Religious texts lead the reported categories#
OpenAI's analysis covered August 24 through September 20, 2026, The Wild Hunt reports. Requests about studying religious texts accounted for roughly 22 million a week. Religious practices and holidays accounted for about 16 million, while beliefs, meaning and spiritual guidance made up another 16 million.wildhunt.org 1 source for this line, starting with The Wild Hunt
The figures count requests rather than people, The Wild Hunt notes. Someone working through a single passage could submit several requests, so the published totals do not establish how many people use ChatGPT for religious purposes. The totals also do not show the frequency of repeat visits or how people use the responses.wildhunt.org 1 source for this line, starting with The Wild Hunt
OpenAI describes the analysis as privacy-preserving, according to The Wild Hunt, but gives little detail about how requests were sampled or classified. The published figures therefore do not show how questions from Pagan users were categorized or how those users received the answers.wildhunt.org 1 source for this line, starting with The Wild Hunt
Pagan requests remain uncounted separately#
The Wild Hunt reports that the classification issue is illustrated by asking whether to light a candle for a deity. Without context, such a request could resemble folklore research or a creative-writing prompt, even when the person asking regards it as a question about worship.wildhunt.org 1 source for this line, starting with The Wild Hunt
Modern Paganism includes a range of religious movements with no single shared set of beliefs, practices or texts, according to Wikipedia. OpenAI's report does not provide a separate count for those traditions, The Wild Hunt says, so its published data cannot establish their share of religious requests.wildhunt.org+1 2 sources for this line, starting with The Wild Hunt
Separately, OpenAI plans to combine ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs, Digital Trends reports. The change is planned first for select users, with a wider rollout to follow. OpenAI has not given an exact date for that wider release.digitaltrends.com 1 source for this line, starting with Digital Trends
