Study of 573,000 ChatGPT Logs Finds Top 2% Drove 80% of Fiction Prompts
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Updated · AUTOMATON WEST · Jul 1
Study of 573,000 ChatGPT Logs Finds Top 2% Drove 80% of Fiction Prompts
1 articles · Updated · AUTOMATON WEST · Jul 1
Summary
195,000 of roughly 573,000 English ChatGPT conversations were classified as fiction, and researchers highlighted one outlier who generated thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club! pregnancy fanfics over months.
52,000 fiction chats contained sexually explicit material—nearly 30%—while the study found fiction use was heavily concentrated among a small set of repeat users.
Top 2% of fiction-generating users, about 200 people out of an estimated 10,000, accounted for more than 80% of fiction logs, with 69% of their prompts being repetitive reruns or refinements.
Doki Doki Literature Club! led franchise mentions at 22,381, far ahead of Freedom Planet at 5,204, League of Legends at 4,514 and Naruto at 4,342.
The paper used the WildChat dataset—consented, anonymous chats from a free Hugging Face-hosted bot between April 2023 and May 2024—and said it offers a useful but nonrepresentative view of ChatGPT fiction use.