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# Study of 557 Indian ChatGPT users finds 2% of chats are about buying something
- URL: https://salienceindex.com/study-of-557-indian-chatgpt-users-finds-2-of-chats-are-about-buying-something/
- Published: 2026-09-13T16:52:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-13T17:09:30.000Z
- Author: Anurag Panwar
- Tags: News

Chowdhury and Garimella collected complete ChatGPT histories from 557 Indian users: 88,958 conversations between December 2022 and February 2026\. Purchasable products made up 2.2% of them. Practical guidance was 29.5%, seeking information 22.7%, writing 17%. English was the detected language in 80% of conversations; Hindi in 1.8%. The sample is paid volunteers, not a cross-section of India, and the authors say so.

Who is speaking: Academic researchers, one independent in Kolkata, one at Rutgers University. Label: Verified. Read in the paper. Per-conversation labels are public; the raw text is not. Source: "How People Use ChatGPT: Conversation-Level Evidence from India, Nigeria, Brazil and Pakistan", working paper, 2026.