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parineumyesterday at 6:35 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm aware that it happened. You seem under the impression that this is some kind of mass exodus based on people you know.

Uninstalls up 300%! What's the baseline?

> downloads fell 13% on day one and a further 5% the next day

Dramatic falloff of new downloads after one day (still plenty of new downloads). Day 3 was likely negligible and, I bet, it was back to normal less than a week after when the story left the news cycle.

> 1.5 million users joined the QuitGPT boycott within days

That's both very few people and a completely meaningless number since all it requires is checking a box. Did anyone verify they were actually human?

> Claude rose to #1 most downloaded app in the App Store and US usage rose by 51% [2].

> New customers are now choosing Claude over OpenAI 70% of the time [1].

Which has nothing to do with cancellations.

> And much more. I think it was just your bubble that didn’t cancel it.

Most people in my bubble have no idea any of this happened and are just using free chatgpt tier if they use it at all. That seems much more representative given your provided statistics of the 1.5m person boycott.


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voganmother42today at 12:22 AM

Ahh I see, you possess the superior bubble, how silly of me!

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