OpenAI Data Shows 43% of Workers Use ChatGPT to Do Other Professions' Jobs
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-28
OpenAI analyzed over 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5% of job-specific queries involve tasks from other professions, a phenomenon the company terms "task crossover."
This trend is particularly pronounced in small businesses, where employees increasingly rely on ChatGPT to handle specialized work without needing dedicated experts.
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