ICML Paper: 100K r/ChatGPT Posts Could Serve as Early Warning System for AI Societal Impacts

An ICML 2026 paper by Jessica Dai analyzed roughly 100,000 r/ChatGPT posts over three years, proposing social media data as a complementary signal for assessing AI's societal impacts. It found that emotional companionship topics surged after GPT-4o's release, a trend that could have been flagged months in advance.

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