ChatGPT was the fastest growing software of all time not that long ago. Citing a bad AI product as evidence for lack of demand is saying the failure of the Homer car was due to the fact that people don't like automobiles.

ChatGPT was the fastest growing gratis software of all time.

I wish we still lived in an age where things were sold to cover their costs.

My money's on their product having 10% of its current user base if they charged 50 cents per month.

> ChatGPT was the fastest growing software of all time not that long ago.

Google+ was the fastest-growing social network of all time not that long ago.

When you're one of a pair of VC darlings that have effectively-infinite money because of -in part- handwavy promises to cure cancer and eliminate 90% of payroll everywhere, or if you're an established company that has total control over very widely used consumer products, you can do all sorts of things to manufacture amazing growth numbers.

In the case of those VC darlings, we're seeing their shift towards providing their products that are most expensive to create exclusively to B2B customers and also the shift towards justifying the elimination of most of their R&D expenditure. Every company performs belt-tightening in advance of their IPO, [0] and those two are no exception.

[0] ...which is when their finances will be scrutinized by the public and regulators...

Don't need to go far. Sora by the same company was the fastest incineration of dollars in software of all time.