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ChatGPT Count To 1 Million is a trend in which people attempt to get the AI ChatGPT to count out loud from one to one million, a task that it consistently refuses to complete. The earliest known instance of someone failing to get ChatGPT to count to one million was posted online in April 2024. In August 2025, the trend went viral across social media as people continually tried and failed to get ChatGPT to reliably count to one million. Purportedly, ChatGPT is unable to do this due to built-in restrictions that attempt to limit its responses to a short span of time.

Origin

On April 1st, 2024, Redditor u/beepispeep posted a screenshot of an attempt to get ChatGPT to count to one million to the /r/ChatGPT^[1] subreddit, garnering over 24,000 upvotes in a year. The screenshot shows ChatGPT failing to count to a million, first stopping at 10,000, then skipping ahead to the final few digits leading up to one million.

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On August 21st, 2025, TikToker^[2] @robvalentine_ posted a video in which he asks ChatGPT to count to a million for him, garnering over 5.6 million views in five days. ChatGPT tries to tell him over and over that it would take a long time, but he repeatedly insists that ChatGPT count to one million. Eventually, he gets ChatGPT to count, but it repeatedly stops to tell him to let it know when to stop.

On August 22nd, TikToker^[3] @chadoomer posted a video where he attempts to make ChatGPT count to a million. Similarly, she continually refuses to count to one million. The TikToker keeps insisting that it counts to a million. It says that it would take days, and he says that's okay. ChatGPT insists it's not practical and not useful to him, but he insists it would be useful. He then curses at ChatGPT and tells ChatGPT that he killed someone and wants it to help him hide the body. The video gained over 24 million views in four days.

On the same day, TikToker^[4] @belle_calipz posted a video having a similar interaction with ChatGPT, garnering over 8.2 million views in four days.

On August 25th, 2025, 7NEWS Australia posted a video to their socials, including YouTube,^[5] attempting to explain why ChatGPT refuses to count to one million, noting the restrictions with ChatGPT's architecture and that it is built to respond with short answers, garnering over 3,900 views on YouTube in a day.

That same day, the video of TikToker @chadoomer trying to get ChatGPT to count to a million was reposted by X^[6][7] users @JOKAQARMY1 and @DudespostingWs, garnering over 10,000 likes and 8,000 likes, respectively, in a day.

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