ChatGPT sees 10% traffic drop in June after initial rush of users

Worldwide traffic for the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT has seen a drop in the month of May to June, suggesting a decrease in interest in the AI ​​assistant tool developed by OpenAI.

Desktop and mobile web traffic to ChatGPT, according to data estimates from traffic analytics site SimilarWeb dropped up to 9.7% in June. In addition, the time spent on site by unique visitors and users of the site also declined by 5.7% and 8.5%, respectively. In the United States, the website reported a 10.3% month-on-month decline in traffic.

Despite the drop in traffic, the website is still ahead of Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing and another competitor called Character AI, another popular AI-powered chatbot.

As soon as the data was released, some argued The reason behind the decline could be the users of the website being students who are currently on summer break and the novelty of the AI ​​chatbot is starting to wear off.

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On the other hand, a member of a community controversial The reason behind the decline is that it does not include the traffic taken from the recently released iOS applications of AI chatbots. According to a Twitter user, there could be a “change in the way ChatGPT is accessed”.

On May 18, OpenAI officially launched ChatGPT’s mobile application for iOS. The company initially launched the app in the United States and promised to expand the release to other countries in the following weeks.

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