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Chatbots are not social media platforms. Also the vast majority of expected revenue from this industry is not from casual paying users, it's from other companie
by j_maffe 2y ago
Chatbots are not social media platforms. Also the vast majority of expected revenue from this industry is not from casual paying users, it's from other companies who will optimize for performance and price.
- riku_iki 2y agoChatbots are clear replacement for search with all implications and huge revenue for winner.
- nukem222 2y agoHow do you figure? Chatbots don't cite their sources (unless you explicitly set up an RAG); search engines do. What value does the former have? Chatbots seem more useful for stuff like generating filler and changing tone.
- riku_iki 2y agotopic is revenue stream, so chatbots can become major revenue surface, and chatbot winner brand will get most revenue stream, while search engines will be just some switchable backend.
- kridsdale1 2y agoRight. A few years from now these will all have figured out insidious ad insertion techniques and the economics will be very different.
- bossyTeacher 2y agoThat makes Google and Microsoft the winners then. It's not out yet but once Microsoft manages to fully catch to the state of the art in LLM, OpenAI wo't be needed and that will definitely be the final nail in the coffin for them