Not going to read all that.. ;)
> ChatGPT is widely used for practical guidance, information seeking, and writing, which together make up nearly 80% of usage. Non-work queries now dominate (70%). Writing is the main work task, mostly editing user text. Users are younger, increasingly female, global, and adoption is growing fastest in lower-income countries
> Users are younger, increasingly female, global, and adoption is growing fastest in lower-income countries
Young moms with no money in poor countries use this product the most. I bet that was fun news to deliver up the chain.
That's funny, the way I interpreted this sentence is that usage was already high in older, male, and high-income countries so most of the new users are coming from outside these demographics. Which, ironically, is the exact opposite of what you're saying.
That’s funny, you miscomprehended English.
Surely this user base can make back the hundreds of billions of dollars they invested in it.
If they mostly ask how to raise their children and follow the received advice... Then yeah, in some 20 years we'll see what kind of return we get. People raised on social media are one thing; people raised by (with the assistance of) ChatGPT may be even worse off because of it.
Interesting. Do you really think that?
My initial assumption would be that there are a lot, likely a majority, of parents who have had next to no advice on how to raise kids. Furthermore, I would posit that many of them were not raised in particularly nurturing circumstances themselves.
As such, I would expect that the advice ChatGPT gives (i.e. an average from parenting advice blogs and forums), would on average result in better parenting.
That's obviously not to say that ChatGPT gives great advice, but that the bar is very low already.
You're right, as much as I'd like not to be aware of it. Indeed, the bar is very low.
Whether heeding ChatGPT advice would be better or worse than no advice at all, I honestly cannot say. On the one hand, getting some advice would probably help in many, many cases - there's a lot of low-hanging fruit here; on the other, low-quality advice has the potential to ruin the lives of multiple people at any moment. This is like medical or lawyer advice: very high stakes in many cases. Should we rely on a model that doesn't really understand the underlying logic for advice on such matters? The "average" of parenting blogs can be a mish-mash of different philosophies or approaches glued together, making up something that sounds plausible but leads to catastrophic results years or decades later.
I don't know. Parenting is a complex problem in itself; then you have people generally not looking for advice or being unable to recognize good advice. It doesn't look like adding a hallucinating AI model to the mix would help much, but I may be wrong on this. I guess we'll find out the hard way: through people trying (or not) it out and then living with consequences (if any).
A strong foothold among an ambitious, educated, technologically-connected cohort in emerging economies? Yes please.
No amount of LinkedEn speech can fix the poor part of it.
In 2025, it's abundantly clear that the mask is off. Only the whales matter in video games. Only the top donors matter in donation funding. Modern laptops with GPUs are all $2k+ dollars machines. Luxury condos are everywhere. McDonalds revenues and profits are up despite pricing out a lot of low income people.
The poor have less of the nothing they already have. You can make a hundred affordable cars or get as much, if not order of magnitudes more, profit with just one luxury vehicle sale.
> Only the top donors matter in donation funding.
Most political donors are $25/month Actblue donations, and it doesn't matter because the campaigns with the most donations regularly lose.
> McDonalds revenues and profits are up despite pricing out a lot of low income people.
They didn't really raise prices, they just put coupons in the app.
> Luxury condos are everywhere.
Houses don't cost more because they have "luxury" features. A nicer countertop doesn't hypnotize people into paying more for a house. Prices are negotiated between buyer and seller and most of the development cost is the land price.
> The poor have less of the nothing they already have.
Wage inequality in the US is lower than it was in 2019. In general income inequality hasn't increased since 2014.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
Distribution of wealth and disposable income need correction. It’s urgent political issue.
You have no idea if they’re ambitious or educated. Absolutely no idea. Is it just commonplace to inject “facts” into conjecture? Comes off as desperate.