ChatGPT's Monthly Usage May Now Rival Google Chrome (digitaltrends.com)
- Reference: 0175440359
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/09/1939240/chatgpts-monthly-usage-may-now-rival-google-chrome
- Source link: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-monthly-usage-rivals-chrome-browser/
> A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â" and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting the AI chatbot, its figures are rivaling browser market share. It can only be compared to Google Chrome figures in terms of monthly users, which is [2]estimated to be around 3.45 billion .
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> Statistics [3]from [web analytics company] Similarweb indicate that ChatGPT saw a 17.2% month-over-month (MoM) growth and a 115.9% year-over-year (YoY) traffic growth... Googleâ(TM)s Chrome browser has a solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024. It has seen minimal growth YoY but has grown 45.35% in the last 5 years, according to Statscounter.
The article notes ChatGPT saw a jump in traffic when it changed its dowmain from chat.openai.com to just chatgpt.com -- and that OpenAI recently purchased the domain Chat.com (though "there is no word on what the company plans to do...")
> Meanwhile, other AI tools continue to see traffic and growth, despite not being at the same level as ChatGPT. Despite [4]recent plagiarism claims , the Perplexity chatbot has seen 90.8 million visits in October, a 25.5% MoM growth and 199.2% YoY growth. Googleâ(TM)s Gemini Chatbot saw 291.6 million visits in October, a 6.2% MoM growth and 19% YoY growth after the company introduced a new ChromeOS update that brought new AI features to its Chromebooks. Anthropicâ(TM)s Claude chatbot has seen 84.1 million visits in October, a 25.5% MoM growth and 394.9% YoY growth, after recently rolling out a desktop application for Windows and macOS. Microsoftâ(TM)s web-based Copilot website saw 69.4 million visits in October, an 87.6% MoM growth.
[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-monthly-usage-rivals-chrome-browser/
[2] https://www.demandsage.com/chrome-statistics/
[3] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-notebooklm/
[4] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/the-plagiarists-of-silicon-valley/
Are they really just conflating visits and users? (Score:3)
It seems really blatant, they are saying the number of "visits" to ChatGPT, is for some reason comparable to the number of *users* of Google Chrome?
That's . . . why? Yeah, GPT use is growing, but that's a silly headline grab, people are not using ChatGPT as much as they use their web browser, it's still not even close.
Also, how did this sentence about 35.4 billion users get past any kind of editor at all? It . . . does literally say that.
"Googleâ(TM)s Chrome browser has a solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024"
How else you gonna click-bait? (Score:2)
Guess I should stop visiting this advertising vehicle. I used to think it was a news site.
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> It seems really blatant, they are saying the number of "visits" to ChatGPT, is for some reason comparable to the number of *users* of Google Chrome?
People use Google Chrome. It’s an actual tool. Not just a search engine. No one is “visiting” Chrome. Those are users.
People use ChatGPT. No one “visits” chatgpt.com because there’s basically nothing there. Except the tool. The tool they use. Those are also users.
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> Also, how did this sentence about 35.4 billion users get past any kind of editor at all? It . . . does literally say that.
I guess both the "writer" and the "editor" are ChatAI and share a hallucination there. A sign of the "quality" of reporting to come...
Kilograms to meters (Score:1)
"Visits to a web page vs monthly users of a browser".
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Indeed. As counting-metrics go (which are universally not very good), this one is really bad. Also note the "market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024"...
How Can that Be Right (Score:3)
In comparison, Google’s Chrome browser has a solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024
How in the world (literally) can there be 35.4 billion users, when there are only 7.5-8 billion humans on the planet?
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I bet they're counting installs. Or, you know, the summary was written by AI :)
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Simple: Ask ChatAI to help you write that article and then fail to catch the hallucination because you are dumb.
... "muth" (Score:2)
introducing "muth", it's like maths, but for the most outrageous clickbait possible. Even the most tenuous link to reality is enough with muth!
..solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024 (Score:1)
How is this possible? There are only 8.2 billion people in the World!
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Likely written by ChatAI. That number is obviously a hallucination.
I use it almost daily (Score:2)
It is a very useful tool. Quick translation? Idea for a new homework assignment? Random question, just because? Check an important email? Reminder how to use a specific API call?
Granted, not always ChatGPT. Mixtral:8x7b is great for local use. But: if you aren't using these tools, you ate missing something truly revolutionary.
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Why do all those examples of something "truly revolutionary" sound so crushingly banal? I'm not disputing the new means potentially being an improvement over the older methods(in particular machine translation seems notably less bad that it used to be); but when the examples are 'searches you might have done two decades or more ago' and 'check email' it's a little hard to detect the revolution.
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> Why do all those examples of something "truly revolutionary" sound so crushingly banal?
Because that is all ChatAI can do. It cannot do anything that needs the slightest bit of insight and it cannot do anything a bit more special. Oh, and it cannot deal with border-conditions or slightly nin- standard circumstances.
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And every time you use it, you become a tiny bit dumber. Sure, if you use it sparingly and make sure to exercise your mental skills, you can compensate that effect. But are you doing that?
So yes, "revolutionary", but not in a positive sense.
Idiocracy is apparently really near... (Score:2)
Because while convenient, chat-AI is not very good and those that actually need it are not very smart. I am not opposed to some occasional use, but use it all the time and you get dumber. Oh, and still no major applications in sight.
One achievement though: ChatAI makes it _harder_ to learn coding. I have observed this and have had multiple conversations with students regarding this effect. They all observed something similar. The problem is that it is now harder to force yourself to learn the simple things.
Great Comparison (Score:1)
Also Bottled Water's Monthly Usage May Now Rival Netflix
At least .... (Score:1)
There are no ads, no malware links, and no junkware store recommendations pushing cheap knock offs.
Thatâ(TM)s a big number (Score:2)
Sounds like a an ai hallucination to me
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Let it rest. Trump has given himself enough rope...