[HarHarVeryFunny]

I think that kind of inertia mostly lasts as long as there is no financial incentive to move. A ChatGPT user who is not paying anything to OpenAI is of little benefit to them, and has little incentive to switch. However if OpenAI start trying to make money off those users by adding advertising, or removing the free tier, then things may change. Google can afford to subsidize chat from their other revenue streams, but OpenAI can't.

[famouswaffles]

>However if OpenAI start trying to make money off those users by adding advertising, or removing the free tier, then things may change.

Tech forums tend to be in a bit of a bubble. People said the same thing about Netflix and it just quickly became their most popular sub. People don't care about advertising unless it's really obnoxious.

The idea that people will unsub en masse once Open AI starts rolling ads is a pipe dream. And the kind of user that won't pay and won't suffer some ads is the kind of user nobody wants.

[swexbe]

Customers come back to Netflix since they have the best content out of all the streaming providers. This is their moat.

ChatGPT, on the other hand, is literally exactly identical to their competitors for the most common use cases.