ChatGPT sold themselves as the easy way to add “AI” to products. I would not be surprised what so ever if the VAST majority of ChatGPT’s usage came from other people forcing it into their products (like all the companion apps) and not actual, direct interest in AI from the general populace.
Think of it like mobile gaming. Most people do not spend much money at all on the microtransaction bullshit. Though it’s still successful in making the company money, thanks to whales and other uncommon big spenders. It would be totally unsurprising if GPT is getting their numbers in a similar fashion. Not from end users, but from selling it as a service to other companies and a very small percentage of heavy users.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 day ago
chatgpt.com is the fourth-most-visted website in the world (as of September, when this data is from). That's the website, not the API. People have to choose to go to the chatgpt.com website in their browser, when OpenAI's APIs are used by other products they don't go to the chatgpt.com website. The API is at openai.com.
How are all those people people being "forced" to go to chatgpt.com?
Bongles@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
To be fair it’s the band-aid of AI. The people that do want to use AI are using chatgpt. It works about as well as an LLM will right now and it basically sucks you off while it does it, so people like using it.
Copilot is chatGPT thrown into Microsoft apps and Gemini sucks, forcefully replaced the assistant app, and automatically comes up on Google searches with nonsense seemingly half the time.
(When I do use an LLM i use deepseek, but I recognize that I’m probably the minority in that)