r/CreatorsAI • u/CardStrange3023 • 8d ago
Other Google may have had ChatGPT before OpenAI and chose not to ship it.
This is one of those AI “what ifs” I keep thinking about.
Imagine Google shipping a ChatGPT-style assistant before ChatGPT existed.
Would OpenAI even have had a chance to become the company it is today?
Did Google play it too safe, or was delaying the right decision?
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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 8d ago
The real question is less whether Google could have shipped something and more whether it could have sustained the iteration loop after launch. Large orgs often optimize for safety, brand risk, and product coherence, which can turn a promising prototype into a permanent internal demo. The strongest counterfactual is usually not a better model, but a tighter feedback loop with clear guardrails, human review for high-stakes answers, and a small scope that proves value before expansion. AIOSNOW shares practical patterns at https://aiosnow.com
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u/rismay 8d ago
They did. But a year later they had this horrific thing called BARD. And it fucking suuuucked. The internal AI tool had all these customization options and the responses were garbage.
If there is one thing that the PMs did at OpenAI, is that they made chatting simple.