> most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are

That's actually changed a while ago.

state_less 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Chatgpt is a proprietary eponym[1], like kleenex, or Google for search. That's a relatively strong attractor based on their first mover status. I nevertheless use tissues, and search engines like brave search, sometimes duckduckgo, and claude or openrouter for my LLM models.

I think there are too many good alternatives for Chatgpt to turn the screws too hard on their users, but we'll see where it settles out. As usual, the most vulnerable will be squeezed the hardest (the ignorant and tech feeble). Hopefully competition and some oversight will keep the wolves at bay.

The finance people were chatting about the OpenAI's ad play a while back, glad to see it finally dawning on this crowd.

1. Not all jurisdictions have granted OpenAI the Chatgpt trademark.

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cameronh90 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think I hear as many people calling it ChatGBT or ChatGTP as ChatGPT.

	▲	DANmode 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		None of which, when searched, will lead the user to Claude, Qwen, et al. Just OpenAI and ChatGPT. So what’s your point?
	▲	state_less 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"Oh no it's GPT, a Generative Pretrained Transformer shaped into chat responses."

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FarmerPotato 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Chachapita

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lxgr 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Claude? I’d be extremely surprised.

Gemini? As gemini.google.com or as the thoroughly mediocre “AI summaries” on top of Google Search results?

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bigbinary 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude has been aggressively advertising on Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit, and the ads have been much more general use than just the code benefits. They’re definitely no ChatGPT, but they’re not an unknown player.

	▲	caymanjim 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You're only seeing those ads because the ad algorithm knows you. My family aren't getting Claude ads. They wouldn't know the first thing about it even if it were explained to them.
	▲	lanyard-textile 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		From the advertisements I’ve seen, only in the bay area, I honestly wouldn’t know Claude “competed” with ChatGPT unless I knew of it beforehand. For me that’s mostly because every AI startup is promising the moon on their billboards, lol.

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mrbombastic 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah my father who codes occasionally asked me what the best AI for coding was and he had never even heard of claude so I would be very surprised if your average person knows it.

	▲	yesimahuman 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They absolutely do not. It took getting out of tech a few years to realize how hilariously out of touch we can be in this industry

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kevinsync 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Weirdly, I think Perplexity is getting a lot of mainstream name recognition because of podcasts. All the big slop pods like Rogan, Theo Von, etc are sponsored by Perplexity and the hosts constantly name check it by asking to “look stuff up on Perplexity”. Honestly pretty smart marketing all things considered.

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DANmode 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Disagree.

Wait - are you in California?