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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman (www.theguardian.com)
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As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

OpenAI said ChatGPT had “tens of millions” of subscribers, which we estimate to be 20 million

I mean, should we believe them? Your source did an estimation too.

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ChatGPT has 700 million active users, who access the app once a week

Where 20mil is about 3% of paid customers which is not as huge as you'd expect. And this 700mil are the ones that are only using LLM once a week. Does not account to the ones who uses it more seldom and/or are unregistered users. If we count those, paid customer % would certainly plummet.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, should we believe them? Your source did an estimation too. I agree, that's why I commented the same. 3% of paid customers which is not as huge as you’d expect Not sure what the interest is around percentages, I suppose an estimate of 20million is more than a few content creators. That's nearly Australia's population

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    700mil is slightly over 2x USA population. And?

    We can bend this logic a bit more. We have 8 billion people on this planet, and only Pakistan would be paying for a service that the rest of the world is using but not paying for.

    We are talking about percentages here. 20mil is a lot. But 3% is not so much in the grand scheme of things.

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