ChatGPT

also referred to as: chat gpt

18 statements across 6 episodes · 8 bullish · 6 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement May 14, 2023 by Varun Mayya · said 141 times in 19 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nikhil Kamath (64), Varun Mayya (43), Aravind Srinivas (6), Debargo "DD" Das (5), Niko Bonatsos (4), Zorawar Kalra (2), Rahul Sharma (2), Nikunj Kothari (2)

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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first

May 14, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Mayya: Proprietary AI models have no defensible moat against open source
“You can, you don't need, like, there's no moat. There's no moat. Like, and I'm telling you all these open source models are just there. You can go download them anytime you want.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 54:37 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Mayya: OpenAI limited ChatGPT tool execution due to safety red-teaming
“The reason they haven't released it is because I think there's a lot of, so ChatGPT, I mean, OpenAI has a team called the Red Team, okay, which is responsible for breaking or, you know, jailbreaking ChatGPT, right? Now, if you give ChatGPT access to the intern…”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 38:54 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayya: AI will not replace customer support anytime soon
“For that, you need accountability. And that's one thing ChatGPT lacks. So I'm not fully bought in on the, it'll replace customer support people anytime soon.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 1:03:20 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayya: Fast humanoid robots powered by LLMs pose physical risks
“So people are, someone will find a way to market a robot with legs and hands. And then it doesn't even matter if the robot's light, where you could probably knock it down if it tries to do something new, because it would be just so fast.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 1:34:08 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Bedi: Dailyhunt uses ChatGPT to generate content for its Espresso feed
“We've started using it within Daily Hunt to start generating content, right, around our espresso feed, and it's incredibly useful.”
Umang Bedi May 14, 2023 ▶ 39:39 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayya: AI will eventually bypass human cognitive defense filters
“And I feel like chat GPT will eventually get good enough. And we're still in GPT-IV, right? I'm sure there are many along the way. It'll get good enough to, Push through your brain's system, right?”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 43:17 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Radhakrishna: Koo has integrated ChatGPT to assist content creators
“So we've integrated ChatGPT into Koo. To help creators.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna May 14, 2023 ▶ 10:22 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 positive
Insight
Mayya: ChatGPT is a computer whose programming language is English
“The best way to think about it is, like, GPT or ChatGPT is a new type of computer with a new programming language, and that programming language is English.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 22:18 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
May 14, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Radhakrishna: AI will eventually become a direct part of humans
“Right now, it's still an outside interface. It will become a part of us at some point in time, and we will choose to do it or not to.”
Aprameya Radhakrishna May 14, 2023 ▶ 11:30 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Srinivas: Google will remain dominant for years via transaction capture
“Another thing I'll tell you why they'll, they'll still continue to be dominant for a few years is let's say you do your research on like what microphones to buy, whatever, or like, you know, Let's say the best headphones for podcast recording. You're buying eq…”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 1:30:30 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Srinivas: No genuine differentiation exists between major AI chatbots right now
“I'll just say it as blunt as it can be is there's not really a genuine differentiation between ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini or Grok or Meta AI. Right now.”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 1:06:00 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Srinivas: Perplexity does not train on web data, unlike ChatGPT
“I mean, perplexity, that's why we sort, we attribute it to a source, like, we don't, like, say it's our content, and that way we give credit to the source, and we're not actually training on the data, but ChatGPT is different. They actually train on all the da…”
Aravind Srinivas Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 2:14:03 Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: OpenAI added Indian user feedback into GPT-5 and ChatGPT
“We've taken a lot of feedback from users in India about what they'd like from us. Better support for languages, more affordable access much more, and we've been able to put that into this model and upgrades to ChatGPT.”
Sam Altman Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 6:36 Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Kothari: India Has Become ChatGPT's Number One Market
“ChatGPT is number one market is now India”
Nikunj Kothari Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 2:43:48 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kothari: AI will accelerate declining birth rates by displacing human intimacy
“And I think AI will accelerate this problem, for sure. Like, again, I do think we are We're confiding more in ChatGPT than we talk to, like, our closest humans, including, like, our own partners, and I do think that that has happened, and there's no, there's n…”
Nikunj Kothari Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 41:38 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kothari: AI digital twins will soon handle our initial dating conversations
“I believe like we'll all have digital twins. Like it just makes sense. Like, you know, we already do in ChatGPT in the memory layer, like we're inputting so much of our information in there. And so I think dating just evolves very similarly where, you know, wh…”
Nikunj Kothari Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 1:03:27 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Amodei: Anthropic withheld Claude 1 before ChatGPT to delay AI arms race
“So back in 2022 you know, we had an early version of Claude, Claude one. This was before ChatGPT. And we chose not to release this because we were worried that it would kick off an arms race and not give us enough time to, you know, to build these systems safe…”
Dario Amodei Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 29:30 The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 9, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Rajesh Magow admits MakeMyTrip gets little traffic from its ChatGPT feature
“We actually have, and they have a feature called that, make my trip. You can bring in your brand and you can have your own native experience. We are not getting too much traffic coming in from there.”
Rajesh Magow Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 42:08 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
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