Comment by hattmall
6 months ago
I'm not really countering that ChatGPT is popular, it certainly is, but it's also sort of like "fastest growing tire brand" that came along with the adoption of vehicles. The amount of smartphone users is also growing at the fastest rate ever so whatever the new most popular app is has a good chance of being the fastest growing app ever.
No… dude… it’s a new household name. We haven’t had those in software for a long time, maybe since TikTok and Fortnite.
Lots of things had household recognition. Do you fondly remember the Snuggie? The question is whether it'll be durable. The lack of network effects is one reason to be skeptical.
Lack of network effects... It's the biggest thing ever! Everyone is talking about it, all the time, nonstop! How is that not a network? Network effects do not exclusively mean multiplayer software, communications or social media. And anyway, it is almost certainly all three of these things, because content is being made (and often consumed) by ChatGPT in every digital network there is.
Anyway, I don't think it's possible in this forum to have a conversation about it, if "ChatGPT is humongous" is a controversial, downvotable POV.
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