Some striking excerpts :
“OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product.”
“A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call.”
“It is one of the most significant consumer boycotts in recent memory, and I believe it’s time for Europeans to join.”
“Here’s what triggered it. Early this year, the news broke that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Maga Inc, Donald Trump’s biggest Super Pac. This made him Trump’s largest donor of the last cycle.”
“Employees of ICE – the agency whose agents killed two people in Minneapolis in January – have used a screening tool powered by ChatGPT. The same company behind your friendly chatbot is helping the government decide who to hire for deportation raids.”
“When the Trump administration demanded that AI companies give the Pentagon unrestricted access to their technology – including for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons – Anthropic, the company behind ChatGPT’s main competitor, Claude, refused.”
And what did OpenAI do? That same Friday night, while his competitor was taking a principled stance, Sam Altman quietly signed a deal with the Pentagon to take Anthropic’s place.”
“In 1955, Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama did not try to dismantle the entire apparatus of segregation in one stroke. They picked one target – the city bus system – and for 381 days, they walked and drove to work. This broke the bus company financially and it broke the back of segregated transit across the American south.
OpenAI is our bus company. It is the perfect target because it’s incredibly vulnerable. It is burning through money at one of the fastest rates in corporate history. Its market share has plummeted from 69% to 45% in a single year. It’s so desperate for revenue, it has started running ads, something Altman once called “a last resort”.”
“cancelling ChatGPT is a piece of cake. You can do it in 10 seconds, and the alternatives are just as good or even better”
“Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app, because your conversations still feed the machine.”
“OpenAI’s president bet $25m that you would not notice where your money was going, and that, even if you did, you would not care enough to spend 10 seconds switching to something else. Time to prove him wrong.”
VishwP45 on
“Quit right now!” is a bold marketing strategy.
No_Conversation_9325 on
Why not use Le Chat instead? Choose European!
TheoremaEgregium on
Are people using paid AI subscriptions? Are you? This makes it sound like it’s a common thing.
No_Priors on
Just a thought but what is the most hardware/power intensive operation you can ask the free version to do?
Kinda like the black faxes by “Anonymous”.
toni_btrain on
The astroturfing continues I see
heavy-minium on
Haven’t had time to do it yet, but I’m probably cancelling today, after all these years of paid subscription. Probably going for Claude, just for the fact that they had the balls to resist the Pentagon on these matters. I’m tired of Tech CEOs with zero humanity left in them.
m0neky on
I tried le chat but its not as good as chatgpt. Anybody have those alternatives they are “as good, if not better “?
darkbee83 on
No, I will continue using it like I always have: not at all.
Thunderbird_Anthares on
good riddance, one less leech to worry about increasing both my own workload, and my memory prices, i can only hope more will follow
wake me up when someone develops actual AI, then i might care enough to hold a conversation with it
WM_ on
I feel so fucking powerless because I do not subscribe to AI so I could unsubcribe.
I don’t watch Olympics or Eurovisions that I then could boycot.
I’m missing all the fun it seems
Virtual-Order4488 on
Done.
What are the best european alternatives?
tremblt_ on
If I don’t pay and only use ChatGPT for free – does this hurt OpenAI more than not using it at all?
litnu12 on
AI is in the still just a tool and the problem are companies AND the goverments that push authoritarianism.
We currently just watch in the US, UK and EU goverments build authoritarian regimes.
LampLambisalu on
This PR campaign is pretty amusing.
The Anthropic and Palantir partnership has long been in use by the US Government and actively involved in ICE raids against Americans and the war on Iranians.
They haven’t actually stopped being involved in anything. The current US administration only has “concepts of a plan to do so”.
Headpuncher on
The Github Copilot interface for cancellation is deliberately horrendous too.
One of those processes where you have to use a search engine just to find out hwo to do it.
Then it guilt trip lists all the “benefits” you’ll lose, a questionnaire, and then the button to continue hidden off the bottom of the screen.
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Some striking excerpts :
“OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product.”
“A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call.”
“It is one of the most significant consumer boycotts in recent memory, and I believe it’s time for Europeans to join.”
“Here’s what triggered it. Early this year, the news broke that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Maga Inc, Donald Trump’s biggest Super Pac. This made him Trump’s largest donor of the last cycle.”
“Employees of ICE – the agency whose agents killed two people in Minneapolis in January – have used a screening tool powered by ChatGPT. The same company behind your friendly chatbot is helping the government decide who to hire for deportation raids.”
“When the Trump administration demanded that AI companies give the Pentagon unrestricted access to their technology – including for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons – Anthropic, the company behind ChatGPT’s main competitor, Claude, refused.”
And what did OpenAI do? That same Friday night, while his competitor was taking a principled stance, Sam Altman quietly signed a deal with the Pentagon to take Anthropic’s place.”
“In 1955, Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama did not try to dismantle the entire apparatus of segregation in one stroke. They picked one target – the city bus system – and for 381 days, they walked and drove to work. This broke the bus company financially and it broke the back of segregated transit across the American south.
OpenAI is our bus company. It is the perfect target because it’s incredibly vulnerable. It is burning through money at one of the fastest rates in corporate history. Its market share has plummeted from 69% to 45% in a single year. It’s so desperate for revenue, it has started running ads, something Altman once called “a last resort”.”
“cancelling ChatGPT is a piece of cake. You can do it in 10 seconds, and the alternatives are just as good or even better”
“Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app, because your conversations still feed the machine.”
“OpenAI’s president bet $25m that you would not notice where your money was going, and that, even if you did, you would not care enough to spend 10 seconds switching to something else. Time to prove him wrong.”
“Quit right now!” is a bold marketing strategy.
Why not use Le Chat instead? Choose European!
Are people using paid AI subscriptions? Are you? This makes it sound like it’s a common thing.
Just a thought but what is the most hardware/power intensive operation you can ask the free version to do?
Kinda like the black faxes by “Anonymous”.
The astroturfing continues I see
Haven’t had time to do it yet, but I’m probably cancelling today, after all these years of paid subscription. Probably going for Claude, just for the fact that they had the balls to resist the Pentagon on these matters. I’m tired of Tech CEOs with zero humanity left in them.
I tried le chat but its not as good as chatgpt. Anybody have those alternatives they are “as good, if not better “?
No, I will continue using it like I always have: not at all.
good riddance, one less leech to worry about increasing both my own workload, and my memory prices, i can only hope more will follow
wake me up when someone develops actual AI, then i might care enough to hold a conversation with it
I feel so fucking powerless because I do not subscribe to AI so I could unsubcribe.
I don’t watch Olympics or Eurovisions that I then could boycot.
I’m missing all the fun it seems
Done.
What are the best european alternatives?
If I don’t pay and only use ChatGPT for free – does this hurt OpenAI more than not using it at all?
AI is in the still just a tool and the problem are companies AND the goverments that push authoritarianism.
We currently just watch in the US, UK and EU goverments build authoritarian regimes.
This PR campaign is pretty amusing.
The Anthropic and Palantir partnership has long been in use by the US Government and actively involved in ICE raids against Americans and the war on Iranians.
They haven’t actually stopped being involved in anything. The current US administration only has “concepts of a plan to do so”.
The Github Copilot interface for cancellation is deliberately horrendous too.
One of those processes where you have to use a search engine just to find out hwo to do it.
Then it guilt trip lists all the “benefits” you’ll lose, a questionnaire, and then the button to continue hidden off the bottom of the screen.
Who pays for it? That’s crazy
The real question is, who pays for chatGPT? 😀
This is true fro most subscriptions…
Onedrive, Amazon, Netflix, Disney.
Y’all should really realise it’s ALL bad.