Comment by Havoc
>my uncle Bill and my mother can and do use ChatGPT.
They have the name brand for sure. And that is worth a lot.
Notice how Deepseek went from a nobody to making mainstream news though. The only thing people like more than a trusted thing is being able to tell their friends about this amazing cheap good alternative they "discovered".
It's good to be #1 mind share wise but without network effect that still leave you vulnerable
I know almost no one outside of tech who has used anything other than ChatGPT. And I know few people under 65 who aren’t using ChatGPT.