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Chatgpt Has 800 million weekly active users. That's roughly 10% of the planet. I get that it's not the panacea some people want us to believe it is, but you do

Chatgpt Has 800 million weekly active users. That's roughly 10% of the planet. I get that it's not the panacea some people want us to believe it is, but you don't have to deny reality just because you don't like it.

bgwalter 1y ago
There are all sorts of numbers floating around: https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-million-paid-subscribers https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-mi... This one claims 20m paying subscribers, which is not a lot. Mr. Beast has 60m views on a single video. A lot of weekly active users will use it once a week, and a large part of that may be "hate users" who want to see how bad/boring it is, similar to "hatewatching" on YouTube.
- famouswaffles 1y ago
  >This one claims 20m paying subscribers, which is not a lot. It is for a B2C with $20 as its lowest price point. >A lot of weekly active users will use it once a week That's still a lot of usage. >and a large part of that may be "hate users" who want to see how bad/boring it is, similar to "hatewatching" on YouTube. And they're doing this every week consistently ? Sorry but that's definitely not a 'large part' of usage.
Gigachad 1y ago
Sure, because it's free. I doubt most users of LLMs would want to even pay $1/month for them.
- unstuck3958 1y ago
  how much of the world would you guess be willing to pay for, say, instagram?
  - Gigachad 1y ago
    Sure, you could try to load ChatGPT with adverts, but I suspect the cost per user for LLMs is far higher than serving images on instagram.
    - immibis 1y ago
      The value extraction will also be much higher. When you control someone's main source of information, they won't even find out your competitors exist. You can program people from birth, instead of "go to a search engine", it's "go to Google" (as most of us have already been programmed!) or instead of "to send an email, you need an email account" the LLM will say "to send an email, you need a Gmail account". Whenever it would have talked about TV, it can say YouTube instead. Or TikTok. Request: "What is the best source of information on X?" Reply: "This book: [Amazon affiliate link]" - or Fox News, if they outbid Amazon.

bgwalter 1y ago

There are all sorts of numbers floating around: https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-million-paid-subscribers https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-mi... This one claims 20m paying subscribers, which is not a lot. Mr. Beast has 60m views on a single video. A lot of weekly active users will use it once a week, and a large part of that may be "hate users" who want to see how bad/boring it is, similar to "hatewatching" on YouTube.

famouswaffles 1y ago
>This one claims 20m paying subscribers, which is not a lot. It is for a B2C with $20 as its lowest price point. >A lot of weekly active users will use it once a week That's still a lot of usage. >and a large part of that may be "hate users" who want to see how bad/boring it is, similar to "hatewatching" on YouTube. And they're doing this every week consistently ? Sorry but that's definitely not a 'large part' of usage.

Gigachad 1y ago

Sure, because it's free. I doubt most users of LLMs would want to even pay $1/month for them.

unstuck3958 1y ago
how much of the world would you guess be willing to pay for, say, instagram?
- Gigachad 1y ago
  Sure, you could try to load ChatGPT with adverts, but I suspect the cost per user for LLMs is far higher than serving images on instagram.
  - immibis 1y ago
    The value extraction will also be much higher. When you control someone's main source of information, they won't even find out your competitors exist. You can program people from birth, instead of "go to a search engine", it's "go to Google" (as most of us have already been programmed!) or instead of "to send an email, you need an email account" the LLM will say "to send an email, you need a Gmail account". Whenever it would have talked about TV, it can say YouTube instead. Or TikTok. Request: "What is the best source of information on X?" Reply: "This book: [Amazon affiliate link]" - or Fox News, if they outbid Amazon.