[jillesvangurp]

That could be a temporary thing and is mostly just a side effect of them having a lot of money and infrastructure. I don't think most of the world is ready to just defer to them and give them all their data. There's a lot of incentive to come up with alternative solutions. The more OpenAI earns, the bigger the incentive to work around them.

As for the UI and UX. Chat GPT looks a bit like a rush job. Midjourney and others figured out that discourse wasn't half bad as a UI and it kind of snow balled from there. Chat GPT basically took that and did not add very much to it. It's very middle of the road as a chat UI actually. Completely unremarkable. Without knowing what they did exactly, it looks to me like someone spun up some javascript project, found some chat related libraries and components and knocked together a prototype in a few weeks. I've been there and done that actually on a project a few years ago. It's not that hard and a very sensible thing to do for them.

The value of chat gpt is of course in the quality of the conversation, not the UX. I expect a lot of innovation around this topic during this year and it might not be OpenAI that leads that. UX is so far not their core strength. I know they are hiring pretty aggressively to fix that. But it's not a given that throwing money at the problem will ensure an easy victory here. World + dog is focusing on outdoing them on this front. They'll have a lot of competition and investment.