Mostly non-techies which surprised me. Like borderline tech illiterate folks talking about Gemini which really surprised me too. I can see why OpenAI is freaking out. They’ve massively overextended themselves financially, and if the base starts to slip even just a bit they’re in big trouble.

> My impression has been that the further someone is from tech, the more likely they are to think that ChatGPT is synonymous with LLMs.

This is still sorta true, but swap "LLM" for "chatbot." I mentor high school kids, and a lot of them use ChatGPT. A lot of them use AI summaries from Google Search. None of them use gemini.google.com.

I'm seeing it outside of techies. My dad told me "AI Google said that..."

I've had sales clerks at stores say that when I asked basic questions about their products, including questions about subscription pricing.