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ChatGPT is to AI as Facebook is to social media. OpenAI captured a significant number of users due to first-mover advantage, but that advantage is long gone now
by munchler 11mo ago
ChatGPT is to AI as Facebook is to social media. OpenAI captured a significant number of users due to first-mover advantage, but that advantage is long gone now.
- felixfurtak 11mo agoAnd Facebook only makes money because it is essentially just an advertising platform. Same with Google. It's fundametally just ads. The only way OpenAI can survive is to replicate this model. But it probably doesn't have the traffic to pull it off unless it can differentiate itself from the already crowded competition.
- wavemode 11mo agoAds make sense in an AI search engine product like Perplexity. ChatGPT could try to make a UI like that. But the thing is, the world already has an AI search engine. It's called Google, and it's already heavily integrated with Gemini. Why would people switch?
- jimbokun 11mo ago1. ChatGPT would be MySpace as the first mover. 2. Facebook has insane lock in: your entire graph of friends and family.