Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

help.openai.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–120 of 265 posts

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#111

Post by hypercube33 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #97
segmondy wrote: post #76

This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…

I have a 24GB Macbook Pro. I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans. The Macbook Pro has an internal fan, and the Mac Studio (bigger Mac Mini) has a fan. If you get a Mini, you might want to get one of those docks that cools the Mini. Your hardware will get very hot very quickly. Also, because Apple in their infinite wisdom despite giving you a fan, very lazily…

How are the Ryzen 395 with 128gb for running models these days?

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#112

Post by tombert »

alt227 wrote: post #110
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…

> He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. Who is to say he doesnt? Just because they dont align with yours doesnt mean he doesnt have his own principles. > he's choosing to do the wrong thing To many millions he is doing the right thing. I am on the fence personally, but I know many people who think that increasing defense capabilities at any cost is something that the governmetn should be doing. Any c…

He posted like seven hours ago about these principles and changed them like twenty minutes after the president had a temper tantrum about Anthropic.

Whether or not he agrees with my principles isn’t the issue. He doesn’t even agree with his own stated principles. He posted his stipulations about AI models used by the department of defense to presumably get social credit, and then changed his mind over the course of a few hours.

He claims that the Department of Defense principles just happen to now align with these principles but as far as I can tell he seems to just be trusting their word. The word of a Fox News TV host and a convicted fraudster.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#113

Post by PacificSpecific »

I'm gonna have to see if I can get my company to switch off openAI. Hopefully we can make a small dent and if enough of us do it, a larger dent.

Sounds like it won't really be a pain for me though based off comments on HN indicating Claude is the better product and I doubt I personally would hit any sort of token limits with the amount I use agentic coding.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#114

Post by Macuyiko »

drivebyhooting wrote: post #86
segmondy wrote: post #76

This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…

I have a lenovo workstation with 256GB ram but a weak sauce 12GB VRAM GPU. Is there any DMA trick to improve offload performance?

Things such as AirLLM, or good old llama.cpp.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#115

Post by human_llm »

tombert wrote: post #39
overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

Department of Defense: You just bombed the wrong Georgia! The people of Atlanta are furious! ChatGPT: You're absolutely right, and you're right to call that out. Upon examination it does appear that there might have been a mistake with the coordinates of the bomb. Let's try again, this time we will double check before we launch any missiles! :missile emoji:

You forgot "I will take full responsibility"

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#116

Post by ZYZ64738 »

ddxv wrote: post #96
segmondy wrote: post #76

This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend runn…

I really hope at some point in the near future AI models shrink enough or laptops get strong enough to run AI models locally. I haven't tried in the past year, but when I did it was very slow token output + laptop was on fire to make that happen. I've wanted to try some of the more recent 8B models for local tab completion or agentic, any experience with those kinds of smaller models?

> NTransformer High-efficiency C++/CUDA LLM inference engine. Runs Llama 70B on a single RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM) by streaming model layers through GPU memory via PCIe, with optional NVMe direct I/O that bypasses the CPU entirely.

untested:

https://github.com/xaskasdf/ntransformer

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#118

Post by alt227 »

tombert wrote: post #112
alt227 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. Who is to say he doesnt? Just because they dont align with yours doesnt mean he doesnt have his own principles. > he's choosing to do the wrong thing To many millions he is doing the right thing. I am on the fence personally, but I know many people who think that increasing defense capabilities at any cost is something that the governmetn should be doing. Any c…

He posted like seven hours ago about these principles and changed them like twenty minutes after the president had a temper tantrum about Anthropic. Whether or not he agrees with my principles isn’t the issue. He doesn’t even agree with his own stated principles. He posted his stipulations about AI models used by the department of defense to presumably get social credit, and then changed his mind over the course of a…

You can judge his actions all you like, but unless you know the man and sit down and discuss it with him everything you are saying is just speculation and opinion. That is fine, just realise that.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#119

Post by ddtaylor »

segmondy wrote: post #68
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 proce…

You are incorrect.

Chase uses a "provisional credit" system, but for small amounts, this credit often becomes permanent almost instantly.

Wells Fargo utilizes an automated system called the Wells Fargo Dispute Manager which is also similar.

Technically, it is Self-Insurance. Banks set aside a portion of their interchange revenue (the fees they charge merchants for every swipe) into a "Provision for Credit Losses." They use this pool of money to "buy" customer satisfaction for small errors rather than paying an employee $30/hour to investigate a $12 dispute.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#120

Post by alt227 »

deaux wrote: post #82
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…

> 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. No, he doesn't have everything. See, maybe he's worth $3 billion. Or maybe $30 billion. Bu…

We live in a capitalist economy. What do you expect, a company to just say 'Thats fine we have enough money we dont need any more'?

How does a $100 billion dollar company grow? By taking on massive government and military contracts, they are the only clients big enough left in the world.

If a company does not show continual growth then it is classed as failing. That is the society we have built, and you cannot blame one man for following those principles. Every CEO in existence does the same.

Post reply on HN