It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure

thenewnewguy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's open source software - it can be baked into pretty much anything given they follow the license terms.

	▲	user43928 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The question is whether the 10 million active users of Codex / ChatGPT Work count towards the download count. That would contradict the cause implied in the title here.

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notatoad an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i think that's a perfectly coherent and reasonable way for both these apps to work.

people don't want AI features leaking into their non-ai apps. I'm not an AI hater - I want my AI app to be able to read and write word docs, but when i decide to open up libreoffice i'm doing that because i want to write something myself, not use AI. i don't need my word processor to bundle an inferior version of what the ChatGPT can do for me.

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jkahrs595 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Explains the download records as well

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jdiff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really. One entity embedding the software into another will only account for at most a handful of downloads.

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nicce 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Unless Codex is vibe coded and it downloads it directly on every installation…

	▲	jdiff 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Didn't people find it bundled with a bunch of other things in a single runtime? Downloaded as part of a whole runtime would suggest it wasn't downloaded directly from the source.

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empath75 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it's not baked into codex, but codex has either been instructed to download it when asked to edit word docs/excel spreadsheets, or it picked it up during training.

	▲	notatoad an hour ago \| parent [-]
		from the thread last week, it seems to be installed by default on every mac install, possibly not on windows installs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528079