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ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history

2 pointsby arunbahlover 2 years ago

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leavingover 2 years ago
This is nonsense.<p>If my user base grows instantly because 5 users happen to sign up at the exact same time, then the growth rate of my user base in users per hour is 5&#x2F;0, or infinite. In users per second, the rate is still infinite, etc.<p>I guarantee ChatGPT&#x27;s growth rate was not faster, at any point, than my infite number of users per second. Equal, certainly, but not greater.<p>There is no such measure as &quot;fastest-growing&quot;. It is nonsense peddled by idiots who want to attract eyeballs and sell soap, or else fools who don&#x27;t understand math.<p>Fastest to a particular arbitrary milestone, perhaps. But who sets that milestone and what does it mean, really?<p>If I offer to give away a gold bar to everyone who signs up, I will likely be able to claim that my time to 100 million subscribers was the fastest in history.<p>Those users will likely remain active right up until they find out there are no gold bars. So what does that growth mean? Nothing, that&#x27;s what.<p>I wish humans would stop and think for a minute about what rubbish they are taking in.