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.
ChatGPT has gotten dumb. I used to have to code check it’s answer every few responses. Now it’s every response. It wrote me an if/else statement the other day where if and else had the same outcome.
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I had a thought about this. I wonder if they intentionally made it dumb so you would opt for the paid version.
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Source: Work in AI, sometimes on LLM’s, mostly on the software engineering side rather than the science side.
I have a few theories on why ChatGPT was so successful, and why the hype is starting to crumble, but they all largely centre around a well-known problem that LLM’s have had for years - they hallucinate, a lot.
When your product becomes popular, you deal with unique problems that don’t seem to scale without insane amounts of money, or a literal army of people to plug gaps where your model is saying things it shouldn’t - whether it’s accusing high-level politician’s of crimes they didn’t commit, or telling people how to make chemical weapons in the style of your grandma. It’s an expensive loop in compositional models, so I’d hate to know how much work it took ChatGPT to get to it’s “best” version.
Over time, valuable data disappears, and your data naturally skews over time due to it being incorrect, invalid, or pushed into just being biased towards a given inaccuracy. Sometimes, you do everything right and you train on manual input that you’ve vetted as correct through expert analysis or user feedback - and it’s still wrong. IMO, ChatGPT was always going to struggle to keep the hype, and it will eventually be seen as what it has always been: a concept that shows the utility of LLM’s as a commercial product.
Make no mistake, the likes of Google, Amazon, Apple, and Meta will probably plug the gap, and will reach either parity with GPT4 or improve on it. However, the fundamental problem of hallucinations will not disappear, and we’ll continue to see neutered experiences that make for great tools, but burn cash to provide these tools with minimal possibility of offending people/damaging the brand.
The main thing I hope to see from the rise and fall from ChatGPT is a rise in productivity tooling, but also people to finally see those that hype these technologies as what they are - grifters.
There’s also the novelty factor. Like how DALL-E was the rage not that long ago, people flocked to it because it was new and interesting.
But the novelty has rather worn out by now.
This is a big part for me. When ChatGPT first came on the scene, I was absolutely blown away by its natural language parsing capabilities, but it wasn’t long before I started to hit the boundaries of its abilities. I was disappointed by how unreliable it was with anything but the most simple queries. Now it just doesn’t do enough to really bother with.
Yeah I’d love to continue using ChatGPT but I got warned for making it roleplay as Widowmaker and trying to fuck the bot.
They don’t want my money? Fine. I’ll give it to someone else who doesn’t have arbitrary morality rules on playing wall-ball with linear algebra.
School’s just starting. It won’t hit the peak of hype without some huge new features or improvements, but it’ll rise again.
I made the mistake of asking chatgpt questions about securing my network setup. It confidently gave me a huge amount of misinformation that led to 8-10 hours of frustration and pointless troubleshooting.
Do NOT trust ChatGPT.
They definitely nerfed it. We will probably end up in a situation where corporations and the rich have access to god-tier AI, and everyone else has access to mediocre, ad-supported AI.
Just wait until we find out what the US military has.
ChatGPT: *declines in popularity *develops sentience *gets emotional *evolves into SkyNet
This is just balancing out. Anything that gets over-hyped will eventually drop in use. It’ll eventually be a boring yet useful tool just like spreadsheets, spellcheck, or email.
Why does the guy in the thumbnail look like Steven Crowder if you bought him on Wish?
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.
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Cheating isn’t necessarily the only use case for GPT, although it definitely does play an impact on the overall number of users.
I would like to see if the use of their API increased.
I switched from their $20 interface to straight API, it makes more sense for me. I wonder if other people are doing this and these metrics aren’t accounting for that.
Do you know of any interfaces like (or better than) ChatGPT that you can selfhost, that uses the openai api?
I absolutely love typingmind.com, I’ve invested a lot of personalization into it’s prompt library, and characters.
That you!
Edit: wow…
Thank you
Yeah, that’s what I did. With my very light usage the fixed-price subscription isn’t justifiable, but the api works nicely.
This guy looks like a cadaver.
He looks like the Change My Mind meme guy.
Yeah but they keep removing stuff and locking down how useful it can be. First they took GPT4 and put it behind a paywall, now I have a limit to how much I can use it per day and have to switch between multiple accounts sometimes. Makes it a lot harder to work it into new projects knowing I might have to wait on GPT to get its shit together every other day
