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Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by KronisLV » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

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!"

> 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!"

Who knows, maybe within those 30 days you find that other offerings are good enough for your needs - I've largely moved over to Anthropic's Max subscription for all my needs, I don't even need Cerebras Coder anymore because Opus 4.6 is just so good.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by jbeninger » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

pluc wrote: post #69

You can't close this box you've opened. I hope saving time on keystrokes was worth your democracy freedom and privacy. I'm gonna have fun watching it get ripped away

What a weird thing to say.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by jdiaz97 » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

aniviacat wrote: post #83

I was just about to change from OpenAI to Anthropic, however when signing up I get this message: > Unfortunately, Claude is not available to new users right now. We're working hard to expand our availability soon. That's unfortunate timing.

You can always use z.ai or minimax

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by ikr678 » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

kristianc wrote: post #119

titanomachy wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I always assume people have lost the argument when they resort to giving people comedy names, regardless of what else they've said.

Sure, but I'll still do it if I think of a good one. I'm petty, but also now that all human output is fed into The Machine, there's a nonzero chance it may repeat my novel derogatory nickname to someone new.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by angry_octet » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC

cedws wrote: post #79

Next week Anthropic will do something evil and everyone will be moving back to OpenAI. Crazy thought but maybe we should regulate AI instead of relying on the hegemony of three companies to police themselves.

Maybe we should regulate Government.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by morissette » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC

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 mean marketing is how business uses psychology to control the masses.. why would we think ai wouldn’t be used by businesses, governments, independent psychopaths?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by cromulent » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC

rabf wrote: post #150

First you want the goverment to regulate AI. Now you want AI companies to regulate the goverment? Personally when I buy something I do whatever I want with it and imagine the DOD feels the same.

My understanding is that the DOD signed the terms of service, and are now trying to renegotiate them. Anthropic has declined to change the terms. This makes the government angry.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by VladVladikoff » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

This feels like performative virtue signalling which is really not in the spirit of hacker news.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by michaelsalim » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:20 PM UTC

4b11b4 wrote: post #138

krater23 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why boycott? Just use their free services and never pay for it. Cost them money instead of pay them money is a step further than boycott.

Free services are garbage, you dun know what you're getting routed to

Even when it's not free, you can't even guarantee you aren't being routed to something else

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by ray_v » Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

Hackbraten wrote: post #139

rustyhancock wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just boycott them all if you can. That's what I've done. Some people's livelihoods probably depends on Claude and they can't say use Glm4.7 on HF. Fine. But it's a moral compromise, that's life sometimes you need to compromise what you want for what you need. just don't tell yourself it's a reasonable line to hold. I can't decouple from Google unfortunately but I accept that without fooling myself into thinking "Oh b…

> I can't decouple from Google unfortunately Why not?

enshitification at scale