[acoustics]

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.

[dom96]

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]

They took early steps to do so (ads) just recently. User response was as you'd expect.

[jeffbee]

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.

[adastra22]

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

[throw-12-16]

The consumer market is a loss leader.