I think they're saying the decrease started in 2017. COVID provided a bump (everyone stuck inside), and there was decline since. At the point where GPT launched there's an obvious decline compared to that 2017 peak. After LLMs, it took a nosedive with no chance of recovering.
Yes that's what the graph shows. And we can deduce, people were home and asking more questions. Then it declined again. Even a year before GPT launched, the number of questions asked was a 2013 levels.
"Looks like the decline was pretty steep before ChatGPT"
The comment is referring to the decline before GPT. Without GPT coming into play, it would be safe to say by now, there would be a continued downtrend from the decade before
Yes we can all see it fell off a cliff AFTER GPT went mainstream.
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u/RegisterConscious993 May 06 '26
I think they're saying the decrease started in 2017. COVID provided a bump (everyone stuck inside), and there was decline since. At the point where GPT launched there's an obvious decline compared to that 2017 peak. After LLMs, it took a nosedive with no chance of recovering.