Comment by nl
3 hours ago
> Consumers have mostly rejected AI.
People like to complain about things, but consumers are heavily using AI.
ChatGPT.com is now up to the 4th most visited website in the world: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users
We’ve seen many times that platforms can be popular and widely disliked at the same time. Facebook is a clear example.
The difference there is it became hated after it was established and financially successful. If you need to turn free visitors in to paying customers, that general mood of “AI is bad and going to make me lose my job/fuck up society” is yet another hurdle OpenAI will have to overcome.
Are they paying through? Reddit was also popular for a long time and didn't make much money.
My point was more that it seems this wave of AI is more profitable if you're in B2B vs. B2C.