• ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        This is the answer, but unless they want to be a browser company (not impossible) I doubt they will maintain it as well as Google. Likewise, Chrome was a loss leader designed to funnel users into Google’s profitable ventures of advertising and search, but apparently OpenAI does not have a profitable sector whatsoever.

        Mitigating factor: OpenAI leverages its ownership of Chrome to funnel users into Bing for money.

        • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          I think OpenAI is creating their own search, that’s probably the end goal to make that the default on Chrome and have chatgpt as a default extension too

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Because it’s a stock price grift and forking a browser doesn’t juice the line like announcing you might buy the browser used by 65% of the world at sell-off prices due to a monopoly ruling. They won’t buy it. And even if they did all that would happen is that it would immeadiately hemorrage users to its competitors because people use Chrome because it’s a Google default, not some weird increasingly broken AI niche thing that the company can’t even afford to run.