Summary: There are now many press articles mentioning the rapid demise of chatbots (by usage) but almost nobody mentions the many layoffs in Bing (lots this year) and erosion of excitement, along with market share (see above)
"When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying -- often."
"As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."