The only thing that will save OpenAI is a miracle. The deals only prolong the pain. Just end it already. Nobody wants their products. We want affordable RAM and SSD.
Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
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Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#22Unless ~800k users cancel it is still a net positive for them and that is with the current relatively small contract they have. The reality is that money is in B2B.
According to QuitGPT[0], as of now, 2.5 million people have done so, which they base on "website signatures, share counts on social media, and credible app usage data". I don't know how accurate this is, but seems a bit of a high number. [0] https://quitgpt.org/
They don't claim that's 2.5M cancellations of paid subscriptions. It's "taken action". It's vague for a reason
Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#23i mean, if Chinese AI companies are constantly distilling the latest anthropic models, and those companies are closely tied to the CCP/PLA, aren't anthropic models already being used for military purposes?
Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#24Should have done it earlier [0] when no-one cared and the signs were all there.
Anyway this boycott is going to fail. Why? Because Claude was used for not only the Venezuela operation [1] but also the one in Iran [2].
Remember Anthropic never objected to military use in foreign operations, but only domestic. So if the government never made that request to Anthropic, there wouldn't be any outrage, and military use would continue with the (illegal) war in Iran still using Anthropic as a vendor.
So no different to how P̶a̶l̶a̶n̶t̶i̶r̶ Anthropic is already used in the middle east.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-mi...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/us-milita...
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-iran-war-u-...
Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#25Anthropic are really suffering with the influx of new users, multiple times per day there are alerts.
What a great problem to have. As a startup I’d love to be in that position.
Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#26Here's a reminder that before you cancel you can go to Settings -> Data Controls -> Export Data to keep your chats.
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#27I'm confused.
Sam writes "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement."
How is this different from what Anthropic wanted?
Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#28Related:
How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997
OpenAI – How to delete your account
Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#29Re: Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
#30I'm confused. Sam writes "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement." How is this different from what Anthropic wanted?
As far as I can tell, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, the OpenAI version was, we'll let the government do whatever it wants, that's specified in law. Whereas Anthropic seemed to say, we're not going to cross those lines, even if they are permitted by law.
Important distinction as there are now no laws against autonomous weapons and surveillance has been widespread and unhindered by judicial oversight for quite a while now.