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A TON of people love ChatGPT. I'm with you, but it's foolish to not acknowledge the reality that it's popular.
Billions of flies love shit 🤷♂️
The German saying which is attributed to religion is
Now that said it doesn't change the reality of the situation. The equally important saying is "When in Rome..."
Pigs love slop.
Just cause tonnes of folks love ChatGPT doesn't mean that it's viable though, plenty of people love products that were produced by now debunked corporations or developers, just look at Troika games Arcanum and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines are loved by their communities but the studio has been bunk for about 20 years now. If they can't break even as a minimum they will eventually collapse and be sold for parts.
Yeah it's a neat little novelty. But the vast majority of people aren't going to pay anything for a chatbot. Bribing businesses to use it won't pull much in either. It'll never be a sustainable source of revenue.
Governments and trade associations and other groups do already and or will pay for chatbots.
The govt connected contractors already have the newest versions, added to the mercenary outfits of mechanized troll divisions. To ratfuck public opinion.
Does that equate to the hundreds of billions a year revenue they'll need to even start to not look like a joke. Their spending cycle would never end as they'll never be able to build at the pace of hardware changes.
And that's assuming the whole ai industry absolutely takes off rather than crash and burn