In a survey conducted across four Southeast Asian countries in February 2023, almost half of the respondents selected collection of personal data as one of the concerns they had regarding the usage of chatbots like ChatGPT. In contrast, ethical issues related to data privacy and intellectual property were a concern for 42 percent of the respondents.

In a survey conducted across four Southeast Asian countries in February 2023, 76 percent of the respondents in Singapore selected the collection of personal data as one of the concerns they had regarding the usage of chatbots like ChatGPT. In contrast, this was an issue for 36 percent of respondents in Indonesia.

In January 2024, ChatGPT online domain chat.openai.com registered over 19.4 percent of its traffic as originating in the United States. Users based in Indonesia generated approximately 11.7 percent of the total visits to the chatbot platform, while users in Indonesia accounted for 6.3 percent of the total visits to the website. Visits from Brazil represented the fourth-largest group for the platform, generating more than five percent of the total traffic recorded in the examined period.

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot, is most used by companies in the technical and education industries, with over 200 companies using it in 2023. It is perhaps unsurprising that the technical field has embraced the use of ChatGPT, but it is interesting that so many educational institutes have begun to use it. While other industries do utilize the OpenAI-made chatbot, there are less than a 100 institutions and companies that use ChatGPT in other industries. This is especially true of agriculture, cultural, and legal industries, where only a single company is using ChatGPT in 2023.

In January 2024, ChatGPT saw approximately 484.82 million visits from users worldwide to its web address, chat.openai.com. This represents a slight decrease from the previous year, when global traffic to the popular chatbot website reached over 650 million monthly visits in May 2023, coinciding with the release of the software's mobile app for the App Store.

ChatGPT is used most widely among those between 25 and 34 around the world. The youngest group, those under 24, are the second largest userbase, and together those under 34 account for over 60 percent of ChatGPT users. It is perhaps unsurprising that the younger age brackets use the chatbot more than older as that is the common trend with new technologies. Male users were far more numerous than female users, with males representing over 65 percent of total users in 2023.

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In March 2025, ChatGPT’s mobile app recorded revenues of over 108.05 million U.S. dollars through the Apple App Store and Google Play worldwide. Already in May 2023, its first month of release, the popular chatbot generated approximately 731 thousand dollars in revenues worldwide, and another 3.61 million U.S. dollars in September 2023.

As of June 2024, global Google searches for the word "ChatGPT" increased again after a slight decline by the end of 2024. Interest in the chatbot, developed by the U.S.-based OpenAI and launched in November 2022, started rising in the week ending December 3, 2022. Recently, growing demand for information on ChatGPT made the keyword hit a peak of 100 index points during the week ending on June 2, 2024. ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a chatbot and AI-powered auto-generative text system able to give human-sounding replies and reproduce human-like interactions when prompted.

In March 2025, ChatGPT’s mobile app recorded over 64.26 million App Store and Google Play downloads worldwide. The ChatGPT platform was launched on November 30, 2022 and has attracted global attention and interest. It has led the global artificial intelligence push with its chatbot format, transforming industries like online search. On May 19, 2023, the artificial intelligence and machine learning laboratory OpenAI launched its popular ChatGPT mobile app on iOS for the United States market, generating over four million downloads already during its first month on the Apple App Store. As OpenAI made the app available to other markets in June 2023, the number of downloads reached over 14 million downloads.

In August 2023, chat.openai.com, which is the website for the company's popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, had around 1.4 billion website visits worldwide, a slight decrease from the 1.5 billion visits registered in the previous month.