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>I'm very rarely unique in my behaviour

I cannot stress this enough: if you know what Deepseek, Claude, Mistral, and Perplexity are, you are not a typical consumer.

Arguably, if you have used a single one of those brands you are not a typical consumer.

The vast majority of people have used ChatGPT and nothing else, except maybe clicking on Gemini or Meta AI by accident.

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I doubt it. Google is shoving Gemini on everyone’s face through search, and Meta AI is embedded in every Meta product. Heck, instagram created a bot marketplace.

They might not “know” the brand as well as ChatGPT, but the average consumer has definitely been exposed to those at the very least.

DeepSeek also made a lot of noise, to the point that, anecdotally, I’ve seen a lot of people outside of tech using it.

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