Comment by munchler
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.
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.
Ads 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?
And 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.