> ChatGPT took off on Word of Mouth alone.

I remember for a good 2-3 months in 2023 ALL you could see on tiktok / youtube shorts was just garbage about 'how amazing' ChatGPT was. Like - video after video and I was surprised of the repeat content being recommended to me... No doubt openAI (or something) was behind that huge marketing push

Is it not possible this would be explained by people simply being interested in the technology and TikTok/Youtube algorithms noticing that—and that they would have placed you in the same bubble, which is probably an accurate assignment?

I doubt OpenAI spent even one cent marketing their system (e.g. as in paying other companies to push it).

> No doubt

Who needs evidence when we have your lack of doubt hey?

Well if you were a typical highly engaged TikTok or YouTube user, you are probably 13-18 years old. The kind of cheating in school that ChatGPT enabled is revolutionary. That is going to go viral. It's not a marketing push. After years of essentially learning nothing during COVID lockdowns, can you understand how transformative that is? It's like 1,000x more exciting than pirating textbooks, stealing Mazdas, or whatever culturally self-destructive life hacks were being peddled by freakshow brocolliheads and Kim Kardashian-alikes on the platform.

It's ironic because the OpenAI creators really loved school and excelled academically. Nobody cares that ChatGPT destroyed advertising copywriting. But whatever little hope remained for the average high schooler post-lockdowns, it was destroyed by instant homework cheating via ChatGPT. So much for safety.

No, it's just the masses sniffing out the new fascinating techbro thing to make content about.

In a way I'm sorry, that's what people do nowadays. I'd prefer it to be paid for, honestly.

I think you meant to say "All that "I" could see". There's a lot of bubbles in social media. Not everyone is part of your bubble.