Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
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?
Alright. So for purposes of argument, let’s accept all of that. Microsoft and Google are just faking it all, everyone’s tricked or forced into using their AI offerings.
The whole table from the article:
| # | Generative AI Chatbot | AI Search Market Share | Estimated Quarterly User Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT (excluding Copilot) | 61.30% | 7% ▲ |
| 2 | Microsoft Copilot | 14.10% | 2% ▲ |
| 3 | Google Gemini | 13.40% | 12% ▲ |
| 4 | Perplexity | 6.40% | 4% ▲ |
| 5 | Claude AI | 3.80% | 14% ▲ |
| 6 | Grok | 0.60% | 6% ▲ |
| 7 | Deepseek | 0.20% | 10% ▲ |
ChatGPT by far has the bigger established user base. How did they force and/or trick everyone into using them?
Claude AI is growing their userbase faster than Google, how are they tricking and/or forcing everyone to switch over to them?
None of these other AI service providers, except for Grok, have a pre-existing platform with users that they can capture artificially. People are willingly going over to these services and using them. Both Microsoft and Google could vanish completely and it would take out less than a third of the AI search market.
And yet beating out both of them by a very wide margin, with 61.30% of the AI search share, is ChatGPT. Which didn’t have any established reputation or pre-installed userbase or anything at all that either Microsoft or Google started out with.
Your friend uses Gemini, presumably willingly. That’s not “faked.” This narrative of “nobody wants AI” is false, it’s just popular among social media bubbles where people want it to be true.
They’ve got 70% of the desktop operating system share. Seems like every other thread about them around these parts is how they’re “shoving AI down everyones’ throats.” I’m dubious that they’re “easier to ignore.”
So why aren’t Microsoft’s numbers going up? Everyone’s faking it except them?
Rare to see an AI-positive article getting so many upvotes on @technology@beehaw.org.
According to the chart in the article every AI is seeing stronger growth than Copilot, on a percentage gain basis. Gemini’s just the one that looks like it’s about to surpass Copilot in total market share.
So not only are people not reading the articles any more, they’re not even finishing reading the headlines all the way through?
I guess this accused witch was innocent after all.
Oh well, the price of purity. Throw the next one in the pond to see if they sink too!
I would recommend continuing to use Firefox until you actually don’t like it, rather than switch because of yet another social media post raging about AI. 90% of the time I’ve seen people complaining about AI being “shoved in their faces” it’s something that I had no idea existed and had to actively seek out and enable to see it in action.
Just don’t use features that you don’t want to use.
Right, and then everyone chose to go use them.
Every single one of them showed an increase in user growth, Microsoft just didn’t grow as much as the others. They’re not just shuffling the same users around, they’re continuing to gain new ones.
And as I pointed out in another response to you, chatgpt.com is the fourth-most-visited website in the world. They’re doing that with just a thousand users?