SAN FRANCISCO - The number of people visiting AI chatbot ChatGPT’s website and downloading its app fell for the first time since its launch in November, a sign that consumer interest in artificial intelligence chatbots and image-generators may be beginning to wane.

Mobile and desktop traffic to ChatGPT’s website worldwide fell 9.7 percent in June from the previous month, according to internet data firm Similarweb. Downloads of the bot’s iPhone app, which launched in May, have also steadily fallen since peaking in early June, according to data from Sensor Tower.

ChatGPT, developed by AI company OpenAI, kicked off an explosion of interest in artificial intelligence when it launched late last year, spurring Big Tech companies to race to provide competing tools. Computer coders, office workers and students have been using it to speed up their work and ask questions on a range of topics.

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