OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs
OpenAI analyzed over 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of job-specific queries involve tasks from other professions. The company calls this "task crossover." The trend is most pronounced at small businesses, where users increasingly handle specialized work without dedicated experts. The article OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs appeared first on The Decoder .
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Published: 27 July 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 28 July 2026
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