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by array_key_first 245 days ago
The mind share openAI has is next to none.

The reality is they're a paid service, and even if they 10x their prices they're still in the red.

Consumers do actually care about price. They will easily, and quickly, move to a cheaper service. There's no lock in here.

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There is talk of 800 million weekly users or whatever. But real question to me is how much actual disposable income they have or willingness to spend it on expensive AI subscription.
Not true, for the non tech crowd ChatGPT is the AI. There are a few people using Grok or Gemini, fewer outside the coding crowd would know anthropic
This is just not true. They don't even know what an OpenAI is, they just know what chat is. It's a chat window.

You make another chat window and you're golden.

Ok make one and show us your market share. I’m talking about mind share and ubiquitous. Who’s going to your talk.ai no one.

I said everyone knows ChatGPT you responded about OpenAI

It's a chat window, it's already ubiquitous.

The downside to making a zero-effort product is that consumers can easily just switch to something else with no thought. ChatGPT has literally nothing that makes it unique.