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Cute - but MySpace didn't have >1B users, it didn't even have 10M when Facebook launched. Try again.
by onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
Cute - but MySpace didn't have >1B users, it didn't even have 10M when Facebook launched.
Try again.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoIt had more than Facebook when Facebook launched so I’m not sure what your point is
- ceejayoz 2y agoNothing had a billion users; the Internet didn't at the time. MySpace and Friendster both spent significant time as the #1 social sites. Facebook unseated them rapidly. The same is possible for OpenAI.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 2y agoMySpace and Friendster both claimed ~115M peak users. > It's literally orders of magnitude. Sure, and the speed at which ChatGPT went from zero to a billion is precisely why they need a moat... because otherwise the next one can do it to them. Your argument is like a railroad company in 1905 scoffing at the idea that airliners will be a thing.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoPeek users is not the amount of users they had when Facebook started. Facebook probably would've never became a thing if MySpace already had ~115M users when it started. MySpace had ~1M. That's why DeepSeek (or anyone else) is going to have an incredibly difficult time convincing ~1B to switch from ChatGPT to their tool instead. Can it happen? For sure. Will it happen? Less likely. If anyone unseats ChatGPT - it's much more likely to be a usual suspect like Google, Apple, or Microsoft - then some obscure company no one has ever heard of. Of course, anything is possible.
- shmeeed 2y agoDude, if you seriously believe OpenAI has 1B active users, you should go touch grass. Actual estimates are 100-200 million, about a magnitude lower.