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by Akashic101 1021 days ago
This probably does make a difference but I strongly suspect that the average user has no idea what an API is nor how to use it
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True but those average users might be using chatbots and other services with nice UIs they can understand that are making those API calls behind the scenes. So the average users are indeed using the API, just indirectly.

With so many AI products being launched these days, it could be that the user traffic is still rapidly increasing but just being spread out amongst all the interfaces becoming available.