Study Finds 2% of ChatGPT Fiction Users Drove Over 80% of 500,000 Chats
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Updated · Futurism · Jul 8
Study Finds 2% of ChatGPT Fiction Users Drove Over 80% of 500,000 Chats
3 articles · Updated · Futurism · Jul 8
Summary
More than a third of over 500,000 anonymized ChatGPT conversations in the dataset were fiction, and researchers flagged one user as the most prolific "infinite story demander" for repeatedly generating Doki Doki Literature Club pregnancy fanfiction.
Nearly half of those fiction chats were fanfiction and more than a quarter were sexually explicit, based on categorization by another large language model.
Repetition was central to the pattern: average fiction users reused prompts 42% of the time, while the 10 most prolific users did so 85% of the time.
Just 2% of fiction power users produced more than 80% of the conversations, leading researchers to split them into shorter-term "story cyclers" and longer-term "infinite story demanders."
The yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study from University of Washington and University of Colorado Boulder offers a broader look at how a small group of users dominate AI fiction generation through endless variations of the same stories.