If you want to see how the world is changing, look at web traffic data. I was surprised to see that except for ChatGPT, traffic for the top 10 sites has dropped from March to April. Was it a seasonal dip? Similarweb did not share that detail.
The steepest drop of 6% happened to Wikipedia – it is obviously being impacted by how ChatGPT collates information. I’m a Wikipedia diehard, I visit it almost daily to read up on different topics, and I’m always surprised by what I discover. However, the ChatGPT user wants information packaged compactly. My guess is that long-form reading is not only dying offline, it’s dying online too.
The relentless growth of ChatGPT has also changed the way I teach Gen AI. Two years ago, when I first started holding Gen AI upskilling workshops, I was focused on just explaining the technology and teaching the basics. Today, most of the workshop participants already use ChatGPT daily and demand more advanced content. That means I have to upskill more rapidly, and trust me, I know how hard upskilling is! I’m currently levelling up in Agentic AI and am going to build agents for my sales and marketing-focused workshops. I’ve skipped the intermediate Python lessons as I decided I’ll let the LLMs help me write code (and wow, I discovered Cursor and its amazing “fill in the code” capabilities).
However, I am very much distracted by yesterday’s release of Doom: The Dark Ages…