According to the analytics firm's report, worldwide desktop and mobile web traffic dropped by 9.7% from May to June, and 10.3% in the US alone. Users are also spending less time on the site overall, as the amount of time visitors spent on chat.openai.com was down 8.5%, according to the reports.
The decline, according to David F. Carr, senior insights manager at Similarweb, is an indication of a drop in interest in ChatGPT and that the novelty of AI chat has worn off. "Chatbots will have to prove their worth, rather than taking it for granted, from here on out," Carr wrote in the report.
Personally, I've noticed a sharp decline in my usage. What felt like a massive shift in technology a few months ago, now feels like mostly a novelty. For my work, there just isn't much ChatGPT can help me with that I can't do better myself and with less frustration. I can't trust it for factual information or research. The written material it generates is always too generic, formal, and missing the nuances I need that I either end up re-writing it or spending more time instructing ChatGPT on the changes I need than it would have taken me to just write it myself in the first place. Its not great at questions involving logic or any type of grey area. Its sometimes useful for brainstorming, but that is about it. ChatGPT has just naturally fallen out of my workflow. That's my experience anyway.
I find that recently the effort needed to get the "right" answer is much more than in the past for gpt-4. That's my impression. At the end I am finding myself more often going back to google, stack overflow, manuals, medium...
I believe they distilled the model to much for performances, or the rlhf is really degrading the model performances
The fact that you have to double-check the answers anyway is a pretty big sign that it’s not useful for finding information.
I used mainly for programming support, brainstorming on techs and libraries, and to refine technical documentation. But support for programming is becoming a bit of a pain honestly...
I use it for help with relatively simple scripting at least once a month and it's become noticeably dumber recently. I find it's a lot more obnoxious to interact with and generally just isn't as useful as it was a month or two ago.
Same experience. It is also increasingly ignoring instructions, always ends up with similar answers whatever the request is formulated. It's a pity