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Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#211

I really didn't expect OpenAI to do something as immoral as this, despite their history of stealing the world's data to create a public-facing deep-fake generation machine. I am shocked and appalled.

The US govt is fighting against true immorality in this very hour, the radical Muslim Iranian government who has been murdering thousands of citizens and holding the population hostage for decades. Ask the Iranian people if they think openai is immoral.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'...

Pour one out for the dev who got called on saturday morning to break the account deletion process

If he breaks it for a day or two half the deletions won't happen.

That said, I doubt there's very many.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#213
all what i hear is mimimimi...

guys big tech is playing this game for decades now. what changed? they selling private data, manipulating society, turning children in doom scrolling addicts. facebook, google and others doing this for years an no one cares. i deleted fb and whatsup years ago, 99% of my friends and fam still using it until today.

as long as they can flip some dollars nothing will change and 99% will not delete anything because of 99% are to lazy and give a shit.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#214
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.

capitalism cannot progress with regulation

*without?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#216

I really didn't expect OpenAI to do something as immoral as this, despite their history of stealing the world's data to create a public-facing deep-fake generation machine. I am shocked and appalled.

The US govt is fighting against true immorality in this very hour, the radical Muslim Iranian government who has been murdering thousands of citizens and holding the population hostage for decades. Ask the Iranian people if they think openai is immoral.

This has nothing to do with Iran. If anything, getting into a brouhaha with Anthropic on the eve of a war was a bit idiotic.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#217

I really didn't expect OpenAI to do something as immoral as this, despite their history of stealing the world's data to create a public-facing deep-fake generation machine. I am shocked and appalled.

The US govt is fighting against true immorality in this very hour, the radical Muslim Iranian government who has been murdering thousands of citizens and holding the population hostage for decades. Ask the Iranian people if they think openai is immoral.

The parents of the girls in the children’s school we just bombed could probably be convinced.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#218

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…

Your point stands just fine without the silly, uniquely-US-politics-style “SCAM Altman ha ha!” BS. I can feel myself getting dumber every time I am subject to one of these.

Those of us whose intelligence is unaffected by reading a single extra letter are keeping you in our thoughts.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#219

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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?

Google is a godsend for SMEs: it's the way out of Microsoft. Many a small mom and pop shop ties themselves to Google Workspace, pay the subscription, and this allows them to manage their entire SME from either a Mac, a PC running Windows, a PC running Linux (yup), a Chromebook and/or even their phone. Don't tell me it's not happening: I know several companies doing just that.

It's an "all in one" solution that allows SMEs to not have to use Windows.

The lock-in is real: once several employees all have their Google Workspace account and some Google Drive docs are shared with people from outside the company, it's hard to decouple from Google.

But at least you're not tied to the shittiest OS out there (Windows) and the mediocre company that produces it.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

#220

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…

The reason this is on the front page now is because of Altmans recent deal with the department of war, not because of these general grievances.
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