[paxys]

Unlike iOS/MacOS/Android, users have zero loyalty or lock-in to the ChatGPT ecosystem. Switching LLMs doesn't require a reinvestment of thousands of dollars in devices and apps. If OpenAI attempts to Sherlock your app, you can move to Claude or Llama or Mistral or whoever else with one click, and your users won't even notice the difference. And as the base model continues to get commoditized, OpenAI's advantage in the space continues to shrink.

If there's "Sherlocking" happening, it's only affecting startups that are adding zero value of their own on top of ChatGPT.

[Miraltar]

The article isn't about gpt shelocking anything, it's about assistants like Siri that would bypass the user experience designed by third-parties

[kazinator]

> Switching LLMs doesn't require a reinvestment of thousands of dollars in devices and apps.

And that's because LLMs do not produce any well-specified, precise data transformation that users could become dependent on!