AI chat apps like ChatGPT and Google Bard would be the hottest factor in tech in the meanwhile, however new knowledge means that once-hot AI picture apps like Lensa have had their day.
Analytics firm Apptopia regarded on the obtain developments for Lensa AI and different main AI picture apps, and located that after a really sturdy peak in mid-December, numbers have fallen to the preliminary ranges seen in the summertime of final yr. Three components are more likely to have been at play …
Apptopia shared its findings with TechCrunch.
Apptopia examined the main AI picture app Lensa AI and others, together with Voi, Remini, Pixelup, Fotor, Surprise, FacePlay, Aiby, FaceApp, Gradient, Daybreak AI, Facetune, Prequel, Voilà AI Artist, New Profile Pic Avatar Maker, and Meitu. (Voi was a later arrival, launching on December 7.)
Apptopia discovered that this group of AI apps first started to take off round Thanksgiving, then hit their peak by way of each downloads and in-app purchases round mid-December. At their peak of recognition, the apps topped 4.3 million day by day downloads and ~$1.8 million per day in shopper spending through in-app purchases.
These numbers have considerably dropped since. On November 11, the apps noticed their lowest income, at $0.37 million. And, per week afterward November 19, they noticed the bottom variety of downloads, at 0.84 million.
As of yesterday (not proven on the chart under), the identical group of apps noticed solely round 952,000 mixed downloads and round $507,000 in shopper spending, because the numbers proceed to fall.
Apptopia’s Adam Blacker described it as “one other fad comes and goes.”
TechCrunch‘s Sarah Perez means that the novelty issue shortly wore off, compounded by perceptions that the apps had been ripping off the work of widespread artists by successfully stealing their types. When images processed by AI apps would possibly appeal to unfavourable feedback on social media for that purpose, far fewer individuals wished to publish them. The obvious sexism of AI picture apps additionally didn’t assist.
Meantime, ChatGPT and its ilk proceed to assemble headlines, however more and more for the improper causes. Many latest tales are specializing in the embarrassing errors made by these bots. I noticed final week that chat AI tech is way dumber than it seems, and opined about why Apple is unlikely to show Siri into an LLM any time quickly.
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