Comment by acoustics
15 hours ago
ChatGPT 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.
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
They took early steps to do so (ads) just recently. User response was as you'd expect.
The consumer market is a loss leader.
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.
How often do you or people you know use a search engine other than google?
That is different because all of the players I mentioned have credible, near-leading products in the AI model market, whereas nobody other than Google has search results worth a damn. I wouldn't recommend anyone squander their time by checking Kagi or DDG or Bing more than once.
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