It's not about the normies. Sam needs as much user data as possible to lock in his position as chief architect of the dystopian future. Elon knows this and has a huge head start. OpenAI is losing the lead in model development so they need to step up in the data ingestion vertical. OpenAI is just playing catch up to grok.

With the latest chatgpt memory updates I think it's about time to jump ship to a local llm.