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.

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dom96 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

	▲	PeterHolzwarth 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They took early steps to do so (ads) just recently. User response was as you'd expect.

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throw-12-16 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The consumer market is a loss leader.

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jeffbee 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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adastra22 11 hours ago | parent [-]

How often do you or people you know use a search engine other than google?

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jeffbee 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	adastra22 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't use google. Believe it or not, I get better results via Bing (usually via DDG, which is a frontend for Bing). But I asked the rhetorical question expecting the answer you gave. These people use ChatGPT only for the same reason you exclusively use Google.