alt Hacker NewsChatGPT dominates the consumer market (though Nano Banana is singlehandedly breathing some life into consumer Gemini).
A small anecdote: when ChatGPT went down a few months ago, a lot of young people (especially students) just waited for it to come back up. They didn't even think about using an alternative.
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throw-12-16 • today at 7:02 AM
The consumer market is a loss leader.
jeffbee • yesterday at 11:51 PM
That's pretty nuts. With the models changing so much and so often, you have to switch it up sometimes just to see what the other company is offering.
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When ChatGPT starts injecting ads or forcing payment or doing anything else that annoys its userbase then the young people won't have a problem looking for alternatives
This "moat" that OpenAI has is really weak