I will be honest. I didn't read that article because it's too click-baity. Using https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/ I see that Firefox is about 3% of 5b users. Not insignificant.
That 3% is about 150mil users. IMO, less than it should be. Google has great security, but terrible privacy. I switched middle of last year, from brave to FF for reasons I won't get into here. Suffice it to say, they are numerous.
It truly is troubling that they don't have independent funding. I, for one would pay $10/y for this service. Maybe I could donate?
Anyway, it's a superior product in many ways.
Maybe because it's a totally unserved population. Even if you can afford mental health care, which many/most can't, it's very difficult to find a doc. There's a shortage and an inability to pay.
https://ct.counseling.org/2023/05/a-closer-look-at-the-mental-health-provider-shortage/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-behavioral-health-care-affordability-problem/
The article mentions neither of these issues. Perhaps his irresponsible for not doing so.
"Never argue with stupid people they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" -Mark Twain
Besides which, it's not kind to spew vitriol, nor is it productive. It's certainly understandable to be outraged. It makes sense. You certainly can't ignore such things, it's not right. Responding in hatred only feeds the conviction of the ignorant and diminishes the righteousness of your own stance.
It's a lose-lose.
I won't even start talking about who benefits from everyone fighting each other... Certainly not us!
The brevity of life teaches us to cherish it. My condolences.
Given the author's political affiliation and the apparent lack of coverage of this anywhere else I find it difficult to make any conclusions other than those that would indicate the author's politically makes.
I wish there was a link to donate at the end of this post.
"AI won't take your job. People who know how to use it will."
I've seen this quote floating about, and I get the feeling that the author of this article doesn't understand how to use this new tool yet. I feel like they are missing the point.
The Google search engine, when it was new, would never take someone's job either, but those that knew how to Google properly definitely had an advantage.
Of course not. They aren't technologists, they're capitalists. Their primary concern is capital.
It's funny because if you look at the numbers it looks like traffic started to go down before chat GPT was actually released to the public, indicating that maybe people thought that the site was too much of a pain in the ass to deal with before that and GPT is just the nail in the coffin.
Personally, of all the attempts I've had it positive interactions on that site I've had only one and at this point I treat it as a read-only site because it's not worth my time arguing pedants just to get a question answered.
If I went to the library and all the librarians were assholes I probably wouldn't go to that library anymore either.
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!
-Nobody
It disappoints me that the level of regulatory capture prevents these companies from being held to account.