[senko]

> The same, in theory, applies to social media.

It absolutely does not.

Your use of social network derives value from your network. If you switch, you have to convince everyone else to switch as well.

It's a tremendous barrier to switching.

LLMs are for the most part interchangeable commodity.

[smokel]

Note that the comment you are replying to is speculating about the (not so distant) future. Be assured that companies will try their best to lock customers in.

One option is to add adverts to the generated output, and making the product cheaper than the competition. Another is to have all your cloud data preprocessed with LLMs in a non-portable way, so that changing will incur a huge cost.

[abid786]

More and more of the social networks are just the algorithm though - tiktok, X, Facebook, etc. How much of your feed does the average use personally know now?