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• OpenAI also started responding to user backlash and regulatory pressure by censoring harmful ChatGPT responses, which may have led some users to abandon the tool, possibly viewing it as less useful, less trustworthy, or simply less fun.OpenAI did not immediately respond to Ars' request for comment.
• ChatGPT's success may have been less about broad interest in chatbots and more about its novelty, which may now be wearing off.As an example that ChatGPT may have simply benefited from increasing user adoption rates, this week, Meta launched a Twitter rival called Threads.
• It could even be meaningful that fewer students need to write academic papers in the summer months.But ChatGPT has also dealt with user drama, including a recent lawsuit and an increasing number of companies urging employees not to use tools like ChatGPT out of privacy concerns, including Apple.
• Ashley Belanger - Jul 7, 2023 6:11 pm UTC OpenAI's immensely popular ChatGPT has started losing users for the first time, The Washington Post reported today.According to data firm Similarweb, ChatGPT's mobile and desktop traffic worldwide decreased by nearly 10 percent from May to June.
• Where ChatGPT reached 100 million users in two months, Threads hit 70 million users in less than two days, CNBC reported.
• Many tech companies—most prominently Google—immediately sought to replicate ChatGPT's success, but Ars noted at that time that technology adoption rates have generally quickened over the past few decades.