Ah, the breathless headlines are here. A mere 7 months after its launch, ChatGPT is being declared almost dead.

This in today’s Washington Post:
ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

Turns out in June site traffic to ChatGPT dropped 9.7 percent. When success is measured only in exponential growth, then a nearly 10 percent drop is… bad, yes. In reality, as the novelty wears off the power of models like ChatGPT will only grow. And before we know it, the technology will silently seep into the background and we’ll one day wonder what writing was…