Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’:
People stay on Facebook and Instagram even as the experiences worsen because everyone they know is also still on those apps. There’s no network effect like that for ChatGPT. Claude is already rising to near-equal status in popularity, and Gemini isn’t far behind, and Simo hasn’t even started enshittifying ChatGPT yet. People will just switch.
I don’t use my Facebook account, Messenger, yes, because of others who refuse to let go and don’t understand alternatives. I already switched to Claude. I couldn’t be happier. I didn’t have to wait for the obvious to come.