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Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by duskdozer »

stingraycharles wrote: post #5

Why, though? What, really, does anyone envision the next decade with government + AI is going to be like? Obviously mass surveillance is already happening. Obviously the line between “human kills other human” is blurring for a long time already, eg remote operated drones. Missiles are already remotely controlled and navigating and detecting and following moving targets autonomously. What’s the goal of people who thin…

Any one individual's vote is probably not going to change the result of an election. So, why do people vote? Individual actions in aggregate have effects. And even if you think it's ultimately futile, sometimes it's about saying "I don't think this is acceptable."

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by xandrius »

titanomachy wrote: post #52
mentalgear wrote: post #33

Posting it here as a top-level comment as many people asked why boycott just openAi: ----- openAI is the least trustworthy of the Big LLM providers. See S(c)am Altman's track record, especially his early comments in senate hearings where: * he warned of engagement-optimisation strategies, like social media, being used for chatbots / LLMs. * also, he warned that "ads would be the last resort" for LLM companies. Both o…

I distrust OpenAI as much as the next guy, but “Scam Altman” has “70-year-old uncle Facebook rant” energy.

It's using Trumpian tactics to carry an agenda.

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Post by ayhanfuat »

itsyonas wrote: post #55
abbadadda wrote: post #37

LOL I keep getting, “ Oops, an error occurred! Too many failed attempts. Try again”… my login codes are mysteriously not working when trying to delete my OpenAI/ChatGPT account.

When I type in 'DELETE', the button just stays disabled for me. When I tried to make the request through their 'Privacy' portal, I receive a mysterious 'Session expired' error message, and now I've been locked out with the message 'Too many failed attempts'...

Did you type in your email? It seems already filled in because it shows you your email address as the placeholder text but you need to fill in.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by hliyan »

nomel wrote: post #51
hliyan wrote: post #7

Even for people who intend to use it in the future, there's a way to send a message with only a 30 day hiatus: if you really want, you can recreate the account with the same email address after 30 days, withe a clean slate. I'm between a slight rock and a hard place so cannot completely get out of OAI just yet, but I can manage 30 days without it.

> there's a way to send a message with only a 30 day hiatus And that message would be "We have a product so valuable/useful that not even their weak ideals and moral obligations could keep them away!"

Large corporations do not, and are not able to, respond to long term signals. One month is literally a third of a corporations's attention span (a financial quarter).

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by fnordpiglet »

soulofmischief wrote: post #28
tzahifadida wrote: post #10

What about claude? Don't think they wont be used militarily that is naive...

You're out of the loop and making baseless assumptions. This thread is currently trending because OpenAI just slid into the US CorpGov's DMs and signed a contract, hours after Anthropic was banned by the US government for not letting the military do whatever they want. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war https://x.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070

Yeah, in fact, I’m increasing my subscription to Anthropic and decreasing to OAI. Now if there was a way to easily port conversation history between one and another I’d probably be fine with deleting OpenAI. ChatGPT has years of my and my families interactions in its history and those are mostly useless to others, but to me they’re valuable. But the knob I have is my spend, so here it goes…

If OpenAI had shown any fidelity or backbone in the least, then different story. A unified industry against any one being bullied into business decisions they don’t want to make is a wall and a strengthening of competition. Now the government will use war powers to shape private industries competitive landscape and turn companies with a core business principles into tools of the state through unilateral and likely unlawful actions, and OpenAI’s first response is to grab the money and shove their competitors under the government bus.

We are all much less safe, and the AI industry much much weaker as a result.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by duskdozer »

stingraycharles wrote: post #45
virgildotcodes wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grok and this administration are completely aligned, so if people believe that the government's coercive actions are to be stood up against, why on Earth would they support Grok instead of... the company that's actually taking a stand against government coercion?

That’s kind of my point. Why are we applauding Anthropic taking a strong stance, why do we want OpenAI to do the same, if that will inevitably lead to Grok getting their systems integrated in all of the DoD’s surveillance and intelligence systems?

If they preferred Grok, they could have just gone with Grok in the first place. Presumably, OpenAI gives them something they want more.

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Post by abbadadda »

itsyonas wrote: post #55
abbadadda wrote: post #37

LOL I keep getting, “ Oops, an error occurred! Too many failed attempts. Try again”… my login codes are mysteriously not working when trying to delete my OpenAI/ChatGPT account.

When I type in 'DELETE', the button just stays disabled for me. When I tried to make the request through their 'Privacy' portal, I receive a mysterious 'Session expired' error message, and now I've been locked out with the message 'Too many failed attempts'...

Probably, on the backend: “Server Error 500: Users deleting OpenAI Accounts too fast. Try again later.”
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