OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot tops the list but these are the 9 other most popular AI tools just now

In the past couple of years, there’s been an explosion of AI tools popping up online - and yet ChatGPT, whose appearance in our lives has sparked as much enthusiasm as controversy, remains the most popular existing tool, according to a recent study.

Researchers at writerbuddy.ai - an AI writing tool marketed at copywriters, bloggers, and marketers - found that ChatGPT, the free-to-use chatbot developed by OpenAI, claimed over 60 per cent of the share of the traffic for AI tools between September 2022 and August 2023, accumulating a total of 14 billion visits.

In total, writerbuddy.ai observed 24 billion visits to AI tools made by users worldwide in the same timeframe - a major growth from previous years.

According to the company’s findings, the AI industry experienced an average monthly traffic increase of 236.3 million visits.

But not all AI tools are receiving the same amount of love from users. And that might depend on the fact that the users are barely representative of the global population.

In the same period analysed by WriterBuddy, the second most popular AI tool after ChatGPT was chatbot Character AI, which obtained a total of 3.8 billion visits between September 2022 and August 2023.

AI writing tool QuillBot trailed Character AI with 1.1 billion visits, followed by image generator MidJourney with 500.4 million visits and data science tool Hugging Face with 316.6 million.

Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, came sixth with 241.6 million visits in the same timeframe, followed by AI writing tool NovelAI with 238.7 million visits, video generator CapCut with 203.8 million, chatbot JanitorAI with 192.4 million and image generator Civitai with 177.2 million.

As well as noticeable geographical differences, there's a huge gender gap between those who are using AI tools and those who aren’t.

According to WriterBuddy's analysis, an overwhelming majority of users of AI tools in the period observed were male (69.5 per cent), while only 30.5 per cent were female.

This gap reflects the existing gender divide in the AI sector, where a majority of workers are male. According to the most recent data from the World Economic Forum (WEF), just 22 per cent of women make up