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		brookst 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling p... How does speculative investment get 500m DAU?

bitwize 6 months ago [–]

I dunno, how did Juicero get $120m?

ryandrake 6 months ago | [–]

Exactly. It is possible for a metric like DAUs to come almost entirely from marketing saturation, heavy promotion, and hype, and not from actual utility to the user. I'm not sure that's the case in particular for ChatGPT but I wouldn't be surprised.

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