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ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row (www.businessinsider.com)
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ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row::August marked the third month in a row that the number of monthly visits to ChatGPT's website worldwide was down, per data from Similarweb.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No one seems to have thought about the fact that most schools have been out for those three months. Not sure exactly how much of the traffic is high schoolers and college students cheating, but that could account for at least some of the loss in traffic.

Edit: missed a word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cheating isn’t necessarily the only use case for GPT, although it definitely does play an impact on the overall number of users.