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

151–160 of 265 posts

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#151

Post by stonogo »

alt227 wrote: post #137
tombert wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Umm, no shit? This isn’t actually saying anything. I am saying that his stated principles are inconsistent with his actions. Yes, sure, maybe deep down on his heart of hearts he actually is the most kind caring person who ever existed, but I have no way of knowing what is in his heart of hearts so I can only judge him by what he has said and done, and I am arguing that his actions don’t match his words.

You really think that a CEOs public statements match their real thoughts and feelings? Everything you hear from any CEO is constructed to form a desired image and narrative. Any public statements from a CEO that you are using to judge their character is completely false and misguided. You have no idea what the real man is behind the image.

Are you trying to say he might be a great guy if you get past the things he says and the actions he takes? What's left?

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#152

Post by atomicfiredoll »

padolsey wrote: post #12

Before you fully delete your account, don't forget to first save your chats! Go to https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls and click Export under "Export Data".

Thanks. I've been meaning to do this for a couple days and this made it easy enough to do in the moment.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#153

Post by _cenw »

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…

The financial barrier is kind of the opposite of "easy to run" to me.

As much as I love owning my stack, you'd have to use so much of this to break even vs an inference provider/aggregator with open frontier-ish models. (and personally, I want to use as little as possible)

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#154

Post by am17an »

winternewt wrote: post #138
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…

And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a reasonable price?

Honestly you can run this on a 16GB VRAM GPU with llama.cpp. Just try it!

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#155

Post by rustyhancock »

I cancelled my anthropic sub yesterday and the dark patterns are so frustrating.

You go to billing. Then don't click change my subscription. Your only option to change the subscription is to "upgrade" to an annual plan. Instead you have toScroll down past your card details etc to a red button that says cancel.

Who comes up with this crap?

At least OpenAI puts cancelling within the Manage Plan section.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#156

Post by atwrk »

winternewt wrote: post #138
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…

And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a reasonable price?

A Strix Halo with 128GB unified memory is less than $2k and the more suitable alternative to a mac. I'm pretty happy with my device (Bosgame M5).

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#157

Post by squeaky-clean »

alt227 wrote: post #118
tombert wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Actions are the only thing that matter.

"He does evil things, but maybe he feels conflicted about it. That makes them okay."

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#158

Post by khalic »

winternewt wrote: post #138
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…

And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a reasonable price?

You can rent GPUs, this comes with a security, maintenance and performance overhead, but also has a few advantages.

But right now, a Mac is the easiest way because of their memory architecture.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#159

Post by _cenw »

bjackman wrote: post #122
unmole wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big AI labs are almost certainly selling inference below cost and burning mountains of money. With the insane increase in hardware prices, running models locally just doesn’t make any financial sense.

Nobody is saying it makes "financial sense", it's about control. I have always taken plenty of care to try and avoid becoming dependent on big tech for my lifestyle. Succeeded in some areas failed in others. But now AI is a part of so many things I do and I'm concerned about it. I'm dependent on Android but I know with a bit of focus I have a clear route to escape it. Ditto with GMail. But I don't actually know what…

Just use an open weight model like GLM-5 behind an aggregator (OpenRouter, NanoGPT) then. That is a commodity market, right now.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

#160

Post by eranation »

After the "upside down cup" debacle, and the "walk vs drive to the carwash" conundrum, and so many other examples where GPT 5.2 thinking failed miserably and Opus 4.6 and (even Sonnet 4.6 extended thinking) nailed it, I think they earned people wanting to cancel their subscription regardless of yesterday's events.
Post reply on HN