ChatGPT Loses Users for First Time, Shaking Faith in AI Revolution – Washington Post

The number of people visiting ChatGPT’s website was down 10 percent worldwide in June

The number of people visiting AI chatbot ChatGPT’s website and downloading its app fell for the first time since its launch in November, a sign that consumer interest in artificial intelligence chatbots and image-generators may be beginning to wane.

Mobile and desktop traffic to ChatGPT’s website worldwide fell 9.7 percent in June from the previous month, according to internet data firm Similarweb. Downloads of the bot’s iPhone app, which launched in May, have also steadily fallen since peaking in early June, according to data from Sensor Tower.

ChatGPT, developed by AI company OpenAI, kicked off an explosion of interest in artificial intelligence when it launched late last year, spurring Big Tech companies to race to provide competing tools. Computer coders, office workers and students have been using it to speed up their work and ask questions on a range of topics.

In Silicon Valley and beyond, chatbots have been a staple of dinner-party conversations. Some companies even fired copywriters and replaced them with ChatGPT. But the drop in usage suggests that the tech’s limitations are catching up with it and at least some of the hype surrounding chatbots is overblown.

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