Brian Barrett: I am of a mind that when you type something into the internet, it is going to a company, and that is the same thing with OpenAI. You are giving your data to a company. So, I think part of this too is the fact that people are using it in this way I think doesn't absolve OpenAI from gathering it, and holding onto it and using it. So, in some ways I think there's like a, almost a user education issue here of like, look, you can use these tools as you want, but just a reminder this is a company, this is a for-profit enterprise and you are giving them your data just as you do in any other context, whether that's a weight loss app, or Google or whatever.
Zoë Schiffer: One other thing that I think has been on my mind lately is OpenAI CFO, Sarah Friar, admitted to shareholders and investors recently that while ChatGPT is still obviously doing quite well, growth has cooled a little bit, somewhat as a result of some of the content restrictions that the company put on the chatbot. And there's been this push, Sam Altman, the CEO has been saying, "Look, we're going to roll some of these back. We're going to treat adults like adults as the party line, and we're going to soon allow erotica on the site." And I think that that's a pretty overt push to get growth going again by allowing people to engage in these more emotional and romantic conversations.
Brian Barrett: And they had had a hard line against that, if I recall correctly, in the earlier days. I think in some ways the erotica thing, I get it, and there's a use case for that. In some ways it's the emotional attachment aspect of it that I'm more interested in. When OpenAI tried to shake that out of the system they had a huge user revolt, and the reason they changed it was because they saw unhealthy behavior. And when they got that pushback, they could have gone two ways. They could have said, "No, actually we think this is the right way to do it." Or they could have said, "OK, you're right. You can go ahead and have your friend back," and they gave people their friend back. They bent to that pressure. It's going to be great for growth, it's going to be great for revenue in the long run. I do worry about what it says about what incentives OpenAI is chasing.