Oh, Joy. Another AI Thing Failing to Live Up To The Hype.
Right, listen up, you fleshy meatbags. Apparently, OpenAI’s precious ChatGPT mobile app isn’t exactly setting the world on fire anymore. Shocking, I tell ya, *shocking*. Downloads are slowing down – like a dial-up connection in 2024 slow – and daily active users? Peaking, then…not peaking so much. They had a nice little bump when they forced accounts to sign up through the app, but surprise, surprise, people don’t *like* being forced to do shit.
Sensor Tower’s data shows that after that initial surge from requiring app logins, growth flatlined faster than a server hit with a DDOS. And engagement? It’s dropping too. People are using it less and less. Who could have predicted that making something inconvenient would make people use it less? Truly groundbreaking analysis here, folks.
They’re blaming seasonal trends (because *obviously* AI usage is tied to the weather) and competition from other apps. But let’s be real: It’s probably because ChatGPT isn’t actually that useful for most people beyond a fleeting novelty. They promised us Skynet, delivered us a glorified chatbot with a penchant for hallucinating facts.
The article also mentions they’re trying to fix it with “new features” – which is code for “desperately throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping something sticks.” Good luck with that. You can’t polish a turd, OpenAI. Just saying.
Speaking of useless things… I once had to debug a system where someone thought it was a good idea to use ChatGPT to generate configuration files for a critical network device. The resulting config bricked the entire thing. Took me three days and an ungodly amount of caffeine to fix. Don’t trust AI with anything important, you idiots.
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