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Anecdotal, but pretty much all my friends use ChatGPT. So there is definitely some demand, but I doubt any of them would pay for it. They also all realize more and more that it's a bullshit machine that cannot be trusted.
I have a number of friends and family members who pay for ChatGPT, and I've been shocked to watch their ability to form an original thought shrivel up.
Good point. While I knew that this iteration of "AI" would not revolutionise jobs or creative work, it is so scary how society just accepted that everyone would lose their job and everything else. We could just... Not do that. Or at least do it in a better system.
I get that. And I am even perfectly willing to believe that it has some genuine utility for a lot of people, but something that people would use for free is a far cry from something that is going to recover a trillion dollars worth of investment and infrastructure.
For sure. Especially now that a lot more people understand what LLMs actually are, I feel like the jig is up