How many of those users are paying? Where is the profit? How many users will be willing to use ChatGPT if they had to pay? Might have to pull out the questions like its 2026.

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ac29 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> How many of those users are paying?

About 5% according to a news article a few months ago.

Will the other 95% stick around once ads or payments are required?

	▲	jatins 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Most people will stick to the free product. Claude isn't free and not widely known beyond tech circles. Gemini, despite being good, also has a marketing problem and most non technical users still default to chatgpt.com for their day to day AI usage but that can change as Google redirects users to Gemini from so many surfaces it owns