ChatGPT users fall for first time amid 'growing pains'

ChatGPT set off a frenzied use of generative AI in daily tasks from writing to coding and reached 100m monthly active users in January, two months after its launch. Picture: peter Morgan/PA

ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. 

Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, Similarweb data show.