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This might be unpopular opinion but it really isn't as big of a deal as OpenAI makes it out to be (like their previous announcements)

The truth is, I haven't used ChatGPT at all since spring of this year. Claude's Sonnet 3.5 has replaced it. I pay very little attention to what OpenAI releases and simply waits for Anthropic to implement it.

I also started using Gemini which already outperforms perplexity and this and will not switch.

I think everybody is constantly caught up with their infatuation with OpenAI and other characters that they don't realize Google, Anthropic are actually building a moat which some like Gary Marcus keeps rambling on as impossible

I'm a realist and I can see that while Google has been slower to start, it reminds me of the search engine wars of 2000s, it is dominating and winning over users.

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> I also started using Gemini which already outperforms perplexity and this and will not switch.

Related, I haven't paid for Gemini since about a month after release, but the morally corrupt query of "Show me articles from left and right leaning news sites about <headline topic>" would result in Gemini censoring right leaning urls with a "url removed" placeholder and belittling statements about the concerns of showing me right leaning content. Perplexity had no issue with such a dastardly prompts.

I want a tool, not a curated experience, so Gemini is in my "will not use" list for the foreseeable future.

I admit I haven't tried this lately, but I also have no desire to help fund that sort of behavior.

> Related, I haven't paid for Gemini since about a month after release, but the morally corrupt query of "Show me articles from left and right leaning news sites about <headline topic>" would result in Gemini censoring right leaning urls with a "url removed" placeholder and belittling statements about the concerns of showing me right leaning content.

Ugh. It'd be nice if tech companies didn't treat us all like infants.

OpenAI has the consumers. Anthropic has enterprise (or at least that’s the majority of their customers). OpenAI is better positioned to do so. Eye balls and brand are key.

People here seem to forget how much the average consumer uses ChatGPT. You see it online all the time people saying how they use ChatGPT to answer all their questions, do their writing for them, heck some even offload their thinking to ChatGPT.

It's not looking good for Google. I'd hope Anthropic and Gemini could capture more consumer market share from OpenAI but it's not looking good. Tell the average person about Claude or Gemini and the only thing you'll hear is "oh so like ChatGPT" artifacts would not be enough to convince them.

I don't think OpenAI dominance in consumer benefits anyone in the long run.

openai is the one with the moat (name recognition of chatgpt) and can get away with a pretty cruddy product. anthropic will remain an also-ran because they foolishly focused on irrelevancies like "making the best and smartest model"

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