Following its rise earlier this year, the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has faced a decline in interest as problems continue to mount.

An analysis from Similarweb found that August marked the third consecutive month that visitors to ChatGPT dropped after a rapid rise. June and July saw the worst drops, losing 10% of visitors each month, but somewhat stabilized in August. The time engaged with the bot also declined, going from an average of 8.7 minutes in March to 7 minutes in August. While April saw the number of users rapidly approaching 2 billion, it has since fallen below 1.5 billion.

The declining abilities of ChatGPT is most likely to blame. While originally renowned for its accuracy, the chatbot has declined drastically in accuracy and usefulness.

A research paper published by Stanford University and UC Berkeley found that the latest ChatGPT model had declined significantly in several fields, particularly with math-related questions. The bot was tested in March, then three months later in June. In one example, it had a 2.4% accuracy in identifying prime numbers in June, compared to 97.6% in March.

They also say college students going on summer break was a big cause of lower traffic, however, now as students are returning there has been no indication of any return of traffic.

And it most definitely does not help that with the premium package they put a 30-50 response limit and then unceremoniously revert you to the faster but less knowledgeable chat 3.5 with no plugin support. I've also encountered times that none of the plugins work at all and the conversation just ends.