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Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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.

If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product being sold. No, thank you.

This is a website full of programmers.

I expect an extension or Python script that ask it to generate 100 random complex questions and then proceeds to ask for answers until your limits on the free plan are reached on a loop

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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.

At some point being childish became a signal of authority in the US. It’s bizarre.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Just a heads up for people that used phone numbers to verify their account before you decide to proceed with account deletion. > New accounts are still subject to our limit of 3 accounts per phone number. Deleted accounts also count toward this limit. > Deleting an account does not free up another spot. > A phone number can only ever be used up to 3 times for verification to generate the first API key for your accoun…

More reasons to go with the competition

What if the competition changed their mind in the future?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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.

Sure, but the reality is that the United States where these companies are headquartered currently has the exact opposite policy: Anthropic has been blacklisted by the DoW (and replaced by OpenAI) because the US administration thought that the very limited amount of self-regulation Anthropic insisted on was going too far.

Isn't it still the DoD, untill congress changes the name?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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…

Z.ai >>What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, June Fourth Incident >! Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content

Does it continue if you agree to the warning?

What if you ask about 9/11?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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I stopped paying OpenAI a long time ago. I get that actually deleting your OpenAI account hurts their ‘numbers’ and thus possibly their valuation. I choose another path: I use their tokens for free, hopefully helping them go out of business a little sooner. The irony is that until yesterday I felt more or less the same about Anthropic. Last night I paid for an Anthropic subscription I don’t need in order to both supp…

I think what anthropic did yesterday was good, but I had to take a step back and think, well it wasn’t a bridge too far for them to allow claude to be used in the wildly illegal maduro kidnapping operation.

Do we know they were consulted on that, as opposed to it being the wake-up call that led to the breakup?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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.

Whom do we trust regulation with? Current US admin which is being run by team idiocracy, Europe that is run by senile men who don't even understand tech or can't even come to a consensus on smallest of issues or China which only does things that benefit their autocrats? The issue is much more complex than "just regulate it" unfortunately.

What if the issue is that we always think valuable change to be too complex and therefore not worthwhile?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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.

They ask a phone number to sign up. WTF? I signed up with openai a while ago and I didn’t need to provide any phone number…. I wanna delete my open ai account, but then I cannot use claude without a phone?

It’s a way to mitigate bot accounts. Arguably not the best way, arguably not the right cost/benefit, but all of these services see massive bot traffic and are in a constant battle.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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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…

Actually Google Gemini provides almost no control on the data you share. Same for Antigravity. No "opt-out" button, even as a lie. Even when you are a paying user. Only Google Workplace users have some control. There is a setting in Gemini but it removes all your chat history. For Antigravity, I think there is nothing preventing them from use your code and data your agents upload in the background unless you are a wo…

I like Gemini the model, but the app itself sucks. You can't even delete conversations if you're an enterprise workspace user.
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