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>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.


This was my observation too for a while. But I'm seeing a lot of non-tech people using Gemini




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