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Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by wvenable »

epistasis wrote: post #56
tombert wrote: post #49

It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything . He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything . He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the str…

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." -- Warren Buffet The original context was very different, about financial markets, but I've been thinking about it a lot the past 12 months. There's a lot of cowards in high places in tech, surprisingly cowardly people. Or they have sold out their principles to be friends with terrible people, which is also a form of cowardice. Hard to say which…

I think we merely have a system where the best people are selfless and poor and the worse people are rich and in charge. It makes sense; we have a system that rewards immoral behavior so we shouldn't be surprised that immoral people have made it to the top.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by ddxv »

busko wrote: post #50
ddxv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What value does this give you? Part of why I deleted my account was I couldn't think of a single thing of value in my chats from the past couple years? Maybe some nostalgia looking at what bugs I was fixing?

Upvoted because you were genuinely asking a question and don't deserve to be down voted for that.

Thanks, but I guess I understand the sentiment. I probably should have not said that I couldn't think of "a single thing of value" when that is a bit of a judgement along with my question. Anyways, it is interesting hearing what people ask it, I think I've only ever used it like a search engine / bug fixing while it seems some people have much deeper conversations or discussions that are worth remembering.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by ddxv »

andersmurphy wrote: post #43
ddxv wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They specifically say you cannot reuse the same email. I also tried after deleting and it said this email has been deleted.

I guess that means they are only soft deleting.

The delete screen says they delete your data except where necessary by law for them to keep. Would love to know what percentage actually is deleted.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by gmueckl »

wood_spirit wrote: post #38
vasco wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is it will be autonomous, the prompt could just be 'keep me safe' which will be interpreted who knows how and presumably no further prompting.

Autonomous just means this narrative is what you’d see if you looked at the logs of the drone talking to itself in it’s head…?

This is giving me strong Dark Star vibes with the intelligent bomb forcing a philosophical discussion about existence and perception at the end.

(Spoilers for the ending of the movie: https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck?si=tTm9TidmEMBHsXq1 )

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by tombert »

geuis wrote: post #51
tombert wrote: post #49

It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything . He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything . He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the str…

Ok. I completely support the sentiment of what you wrote. But it doesn't directly seem relevant to the parent question.

It’s not but it is relevant to the surrounding context as to why this post has made it to the top of HN right now.

Very few of the comments on this thread are actually about the act of canceling the subscription.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by segmondy »

ddtaylor wrote: post #54

Story time! I actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription in late 2024 and documented the process, kind of as a social media thing because it had gotten so bad and I realized nobody in my family was using it anymore. I asked my wife if she was getting any use out of it and she told me she had been using Gemini and Grok for months because "GPT is very lazy now". After a while another charge came in for the subscription…

Your last statement is false. A shady merchant never gets to keep the stolen money. The card issuer/bank refunds you immediately because of consumer protection laws. But that charge is immediately charged to the processor. The processor then gets the merchant involved in a dispute process. If the merchant loses the processor charges the merchant. One way they do it is to immediately deduct it from their current processed transactions. If the merchant is no longer processing, they will usually go try to claw it back from their bank account if they have no held reserves, and if they can't get it, they send the merchant to collection. At the end the merchant must eat the cost or the processor. So in your case, the bank didn't eat the cost. OpenAI certainly ate the cost and the chargeback fees.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by epistasis »

wvenable wrote: post #61
epistasis wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." -- Warren Buffet The original context was very different, about financial markets, but I've been thinking about it a lot the past 12 months. There's a lot of cowards in high places in tech, surprisingly cowardly people. Or they have sold out their principles to be friends with terrible people, which is also a form of cowardice. Hard to say which…

I think we merely have a system where the best people are selfless and poor and the worse people are rich and in charge. It makes sense; we have a system that rewards immoral behavior so we shouldn't be surprised that immoral people have made it to the top.

Such systems are nothing new, and are in fact the norm. The current system is perhaps even notable for how it has deviated from the past, and in particular Silicon Valley was a means for promoting some of the most selfless and poor into positions of great wealth and influence, especially going back to the Fairchild Semiconductor days. Always been greedy venal and immoral people here, but perhaps less than in other systems of power.

The stoics, people that Zuckerberg and others pretend to understand and follow, would have nothing but disdain for the lack of virtue that's apparent in those like Zuckerberg.

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