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All chat apps look exactly the same and have exactly the same features. The friction is basically non-existent compared to email services, social media, web bro
by swexbe 10mo ago
All chat apps look exactly the same and have exactly the same features. The friction is basically non-existent compared to email services, social media, web browsers, &c.
- ethmarks 10mo agoI think it matters to more than you might think. A significant portion of the non-technical ChatGPT userbase get really attached to the model flavor. The GPT-4o controversy is a good example. People got attached to 4o's emotional and enthusiastic response style. When GPT-5--which was much more terse and practical--rolled out, people got really upset because they were treating ChatGPT as a confident and friend, and were upset when it's personality changed. In my experience, Gemini and Claude are much more helpful and terse than ChatGPT with less conversational padding. I can imagine that the people who value that conversational padding would have a similar reaction to Gemini or Claude as they did to GPT-5.
- aurareturn 10mo agoYet, somehow I've been paying $20/month to ChatGPT for years now and I don't use Claude or Gemini even when they're free or have slightly better models.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoMany more people see “AI overviews” everyday with Google being the default search engine on almost every mobile phone outside of China.
- tungnt620 10mo agoI saw it too
- sumeno 10mo agoOh well if YOU do something then that's that
- aurareturn 10mo ago1 billion users and growing says there are more people like me than not.
- swexbe 10mo agoweird flex