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Comment by jolux

1 day ago

ChatGPT has over a billion monthly active users.

I am an active user of Claude but I do not live my life through that thing. I try to get it to answer questions that it does not want to answer. The only questions it seems to answer without hesitation are technical in nature. In the entire existence of my account I have started 9 chats.

More interesting to me was that Alexa on Amazon Prime answered all my questions without hesitation or disclaimers but once I have my answers I close that tab.

This is definitely a 2026 type comment, but I'm very surprised that it's so "low." GPT is the most well known brand and it's the one that seemingly 100% of kids use to "assist" on their homework and other exercises from grade school to college. One would think that alone would already take you well over a billion.

This does not mean that all billion of them are using ChatGPT as their main interface with the internet.

I am monthly active user, absolutely do not experience web through ChatGPT alone and frankly, dont mind ChatGPT being cut off stuff. AI companies forcing themselves as a middle man is not a good thing.

Whoever using purely agentic worflow is not my concern. Just like people who read only physical book, learn only from podcasts or watch only netflix movies.

There is zero reason for the rest of us to worry about filling free data to companies that try to make themselves monopolies.