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I saw this amazing chart recently. It was of chat GPT usage. The number of people, the number of

queries on chat GPT, and it showed a chart of

that usage over the past year. And around June 1st of this year, it collapsed. It plunged. Not a little

bit, but really plunged. And people were speculating, what the heck happened here?

What happened around June 1st where people stopped using chat GPT?

And a couple people chimed in with what I think was the best answer, the most certain answer, which was school ended.

Colleges, high schools ended ended, test taking, finals ended,

and chat GPT usage collapses.

Now, what's interesting about this theory is,

like any new technology,

this has always been the case,

younger people tend to be the forerunners,

the people who are using it

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