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mgh2on ChatGPT loses half of paid subscribers since April

Title should have been more specific: "ChatGPT loses half of its 20M paid subscribers since April"

Although the numbers don't make sense, they announced 3M in June: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/openai-chatgpt-enterprise-ai...

February: 2M, April: 20M, June: 3M, October: 10M

mgh2on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals

Really? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511368

mgh2on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals

https://archive.is/dvKkB

mgh2on Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45509898

mgh2on Nvidia to Finance Musk's XAI Chips as Part of $20B Deal

Although SPVs not same as SPACs, Palantir did similar things in the past: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/palantir-gets-aggressive-wit...

mgh2on Nvidia to Finance Musk's XAI Chips as Part of $20B Deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QBW2_HzXFY

mgh2on ChatGPT loses half of paid subscribers since April

> Its paid subscription tier, ChatGPT Plus, now counts over 10 million subscribers, while enterprise usage has reached near ubiquity, with 92% of Fortune 100 companies incorporating the platform into their operations.

1. Down from 20M subscribers in April 2025? https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-mi...

This is why they don't disclose it, to keep the hype going: https://youtu.be/MoeSL0BxZUE?si=a4HoSpxAzX33UG8t&t=209

2. 92% penetration of Fortune 100 companies: executive push, low adoption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45355806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165019

mgh2on Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report

https://archive.ph/0fi0K

Source: tons of references at end https://medium.com/@trendguardian/why-we-are-dispensable-7a5...

mgh2on Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500485

mgh2on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465969

mgh2on OpenAI Inks AMD Chips Deal Worth Tens of Billions of Dollars

https://archive.is/B3cdf

mgh2on Stocks Can Be Quietly Stolen from Your IRA

https://archive.is/QdYCD

mgh2on OpenEvidence: The AI Assistant Doctors Say Is a 'Game Changer' [video]

Wait once ads enter their search results, doctors will subtly and subsconciously start diagnosing and recommending treatment based on advertiser's suggestions...nobody is immune to brainwashing, not even doctors

mgh2on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Why does the author need to inject his political viewpoints into the article?

> Cory Doctorow is an activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

If you have not dealt with digital marketing, this article is structured as an advertorial, present a pain (Amazon practices), then offer a solution/product, with a subtle call to action (CTA) at the end - "subscribe to the left ideology to get rid of the problem"

I am tired of political propaganda masqueraded as information. Ironically, the author doesn't know that he is a product of "enshittification"; but instead of physical products, left ideologies, heavily advertised through social media.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/guardian

mgh2on The One Quality Most 'Super-Agers' Share

https://archive.ph/1EbJV

mgh2on Bay Area university issues warning over man using Meta AI glasses on campus

This is a privacy nightmare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41741868

mgh2on Los Angeles Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Comments section: Causes - "Go woke, go broke" and AI (as a bubble, I doubt this is the reason)

Unfortunately, it is also a business: viewers are tired of bait and switches - paying for entertainment and getting instead political propaganda.

mgh2on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

https://archive.is/mVUfw

mgh2on Elon Musk urges parents to cancel Netflix over 'transgender woke agenda'

Is the HN community so blind to the effects of their products that they are willing to sacrifice their children's mental health for it? Brainwashing really works.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10353947/

mgh2on Elon Musk urges parents to cancel Netflix over 'transgender woke agenda'

Not expertise, just distinction btwn truth and false. How can we be sure we are not a product of social media propaganda?

mgh2on Elon Musk urges parents to cancel Netflix over 'transgender woke agenda'

Adults can hardly sort out the truth nowadays... https://archive.ph/ZHkv1

mgh2on Elon Musk urges parents to cancel Netflix over 'transgender woke agenda'

Children are sponges when it comes to learning.

The trick with propaganda is that it subconsciously affects your mind, to the point you won't realize until it is too late.

It is no secret why most FAANG are in advertising: Meta, Google, Netflix (movies and shows are just another form).

They are in the business of controlling your mind - doing this to children is immoral, especially when it comes to their health and identity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

[2] https://archive.ph/JGuKR#selection-615.106-615.121