I am somewhat jaded on this point because I can’t count the number of times that people have said, you know, “Oh, we’re we’re all going to cancel our subscriptions to this thing or we’re going to delete Uber or we’re going to, you know, quit Facebook in protest.” And like, it never really seems to have much of an impact. But like, do you think in this case that enough people are mad about this at the consumer level, that it could actually impact their business? Not really. I think you’re exactly right. I think that usually these things just tend to blow over in a few days, and I’m sure that OpenAI is counting on that. At the same time, though, Kevin, I think back to the lesson that Meta learned, which is that as it had its own series of controversies, by and large, people did not quit Facebook. They did not quit Instagram. But you know what they did do? Just kind of start to hate Meta as a company –Hmm. –and develop really low trust in that company. And that winds up hurting Meta in all sorts of ways. And the particular way, by the way, that I think this is going to hurt OpenAI is they’re gearing up to go out and build a lot of data centers around this country, and there’s already enormous backlash that we are seeing. Right? We’re starting to see it creep into our politics. And so if they are not able to sort of reverse the narrative and convince people that A.I. is going to have, like, hugely positive outcomes in their lives, I think you’re going to see the data center opposition ramp up as a proxy for people’s just kind of distrust of that company in general.
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