Comment by jonplackett
5 months ago
Yep totally agree. It will also depend who captures the most eyeballs.
ChatGPT is already my default first place to check something, where it was Google for the previous 20+ years.
5 months ago
Yep totally agree. It will also depend who captures the most eyeballs.
ChatGPT is already my default first place to check something, where it was Google for the previous 20+ years.
I use it for all kinds of unique things, but ChatGPT is the last place I look for facts.
Eyeballs aren’t enough though. Unlike Google ChatGPT is very expensive to run. It’s unlikely they can just slap ads on it like Google did.
Inference costs will keep dropping. The stuff the average consumer does will be trivially cheap. More stuff will move on device. The edge capabilities of these models are already far beyond what the average person can use or comprehend.
The point I wonder about is the sustainability of every query being 30+ requests. Site owners aren't ready to have 98% of their requests be non-monetizable bot traffic. However, sites that have something to sell are..