Published 1,000-transcript collection · relevance and completeness still require review

RESEARCH OBSERVATORY / 2025 COHORT

A year of
shared conversations.

Explore 1,000 recovered public AI conversations referenced on GitHub. Follow the collection process and compare monthly counts alongside major model releases.

Explore the timeline
GitHub issues, pull requests & commentsCollected November 2026
01 / THE COLLECTION

From a public link
to a recovered transcript.

A share URL enters this collection only after extraction of an ordered user-to-assistant exchange. Relevance and transcript completeness still require review.

  1. 01 →

    Discover public references

    2,700unique candidate links in the checkpoint

    Find share URLs in public GitHub issue and PR bodies and individually verified comments.

  2. 02 →

    Check source dates

    2,427candidates with qualifying 2025 sources

    Both source creation and update dates must be in 2025. These are source dates, not chat creation dates.

  3. 03 →

    Recover in parallel

    8browser workers in the final job

    Run resumable browser extraction on the cluster. Repair changed selectors and retain failure reasons.

  4. 04 ✓

    Deduplicate & export

    1,000distinct recovered transcripts published

    Deduplicate URLs and normalized transcript hashes. Mask six token-shaped examples before publication.

Why no Claude transcripts? All 220 eligible Claude links attempted on the cluster hit access challenges. Claude was excluded from the final recovery job; zero recoveries does not mean zero usage. The collector stopped at 1,000 transcripts, leaving eligible candidates unattempted. Read the run record ↗

02 / EXPLORE THE DATA

Make room for discovery.

Open the interactive explorer to compare platforms, zoom into the year, and inspect model releases alongside monthly recovered-conversation counts.

Open the visualizations
03 / RESEARCH NOTES

Context before conclusions.

View the repository ↗
01

A reference cohort

A GitHub artifact’s timestamp does not establish when its chat was generated, or precisely when its link was added. The explorer uses the creation date of the issue, pull request, or comment containing each recovered chat’s share link. Multiple sources are assigned to the earliest qualifying source creation date, so each recovered chat contributes only once.

02

Platform, not model

Model versions are unverified. Milestones come from linked provider announcements and describe availability, not attribution, adoption or causal effects on the collected chats.

03

A recovered sample

Public sharing, discovery order and retrieval success shape these counts. Platform proportions do not estimate usage or market share. Development relevance, transcript completeness and model versions remain unverified.

REPRODUCIBLE FROM THE PUBLISHED TRANSCRIPT EXPORT

Counts are generated from the published dataset at build time.

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