After a dramatic rise in ChatGPT ’s popularity late last year and early 2023, it appears that According website OpenAI’s chatbot is starting to “lose some ground.” to data from Similarweb , mobile and desktop traffic to ChatGPT’s fell by 9.7% globally last month. If Similarweb ’s data is accurate, then we’re talking about the first decline in ChatGPT’s usage. Additionally, in June, Sensor Tower also saw downloads of ChatGPT’s iOS client decline after peaking earlier in the month.
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The declining interest in ChatGPT appears to be part of a broader industry trend. Similarweb’s numbers show that traffic to the websites (both desktop and mobile) of Microsoft Bing, Google Bard , and Character.AI has generally declined in recent months. Microsoft, for example, saw traffic to its search engine increase between February and March, when Bing AI was released in public preview. However, since then, there has been a steady decline. Traffic appears to have returned to levels before Microsoft revamped Bing around GPT-4. In addition, Similarweb saw a decline in engagement related to ChatGPT, with minutes spent in the app down 8.5% since May 2023.
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The Post suggests that the drop in ChatGPT usage may be linked to the end of the school year. With most students on summer break, they may not be using ChatGPT to write assignments . Additionally, there are companies like Samsung that are banning employees from using AI chatbots, due to fears of a potential data leak.
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Whatever the reason for the decline, OpenAI is probably not worried. CEO Sam Altman has said that the service costs OpenAI a lot of money to operate.
Moreover, ChatGPT has revolutionized the AI and its popularity will definitely not fall so easily.
Source: www.engadget.com
