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ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time
(techcrunch.com)
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This isn't good news. This just means now the market is fractured with many AIs instead of just one. If anything it's just a sign that more people are using AI.
Call me when the headline is "ChatGPT shuts down".
It is
Less customers same expenses
More chances of them going bankrupt
If they do it’s probably going to be Musk that buys the corpse.
Fundamentally this feels like it should be a good thing…
But it does feel like this just accelerates things.
It's great news. The only hope for these companies is getting to monopoly enshittification before investors give up. This shows that timeline might be impossibly long.
If OpenAI's numbers are true, more usage means more cash burn. And more competition means companies have to fight to offer the best deals to customers, meaning more cash burn.
Now if the market was reasonable...
lol. I am the market, and I am reasonable.
I've got actual use cases for AI, and I've got a local model running on my own hardware.
In short - I'm the long term buyer after the hype wave ends, and I ain't buying shit from these assholes.
That said, if a nice fully open source home appliance gets announced, by a company that hasn't burned all available goodwill and trust with random acts of assholery, I'll probably join a wait list for it.
In other words, I'm saying there's a chance.
Unfortunately, unless you're a business yourself, I don't think you're the market anybody castes about any more. The entire RAM crisis was caused because individual people got deprioritized compared to the promise of some revenue from big businesses...
It's a weird club of CEOs telling each-other to buy their stuff in return for investment.
I'm not sure there is an actual market, once the money-seeking-profits spin cycle ends.
The market shouldn't even exist.
Imagine if I offered a service to connect people with local serial killers. Then after some time more people started offering that service.
Would you say "Well hopefully competition will drive down prices at least"?
Yeah big AI needs to not be a thing. Small, focused, FOS, and local AI seems like a future with an okay compromise. I say as a very anti-AI person, but for those that use AI, that seems to be what they're doing, in my vicinity.
It all still burns energy at a time when we should be reducing our energy consumption. And for mainly frivolous things which we could have done without AI aynway.
It does, but less energy, and it distributes it worldwide rather than destroy the ecosystems where their data centers are located.