[parineum]

> They have 700 million weekly users and growing much faster than Google.

Years old company growing faster than decades old company!

2.5 billion people use Gmail. I assume people check their mail (and, more importantly, receive mail) much more often than weekly.

ChatGPT has a lot of growing to do to catch up, even if it's faster

[boston_clone]

I read that as OpenAI’s WAU is showing a steeper increase than Google ever did. Not saying it’s factually accurate, just that it’s not a fixed point-in-time comparison :)

[jobigoud]

There are 2 billion more humans living now than in 2000 though, and the world is much more technology oriented.

[parineum]

The focus on WAU is a tell though. How much data can OpenAI use for advertising if I interact with it weekly?

When I ask about which toaster is best, is it going to show me ads for a motorcycle because that's what I asked about last week?

[voakbasda]

My wife asked for information about a product, and ChatGPT fed her a handful of blatant product ads. She told the AI never to do that again, and that was the last time she saw that format of output.

I would wager that she was part of an A/B testing group, so her instruction may not have any real effect. However, we were both appalled by that output and immediately discussed alternative AI options, should such a change become permanent.

This isn’t the rise of Google, where they have a vastly superior product and can boil us frogs by slowly serving us more and more ads. We are already boiling mad from having become hypersensitive to products wholly tainted by ads.

We ain’t gunna take it anymore.