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Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by tombert »

tobr wrote: post #3

I had been considering ditching everyday ChatGPT use in favor of Claude anyway, but hadn’t gotten around to it mostly out of habit. Now I have a good reason to do it.

Same, I had put Claude in my metaphorical shopping cart about two weeks ago but I already had some inertia with ChatGPT + Codex and figured it wouldn't be better enough to justify changing.

That has changed, so I canceled my ChatGPT membership and signed up for Claude. I still have five bucks of credit I bought a year ago for the OpenAI API that I do not believe I can have refunded back, so some of my apps are going to have to stick to OpenAI until those credits run out since I'm not going to just donate five bucks to them.

Playing with it now, I honestly can't tell too much of a difference, which as far as I am concerned is a good thing.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by Nevermark »

pbiggar wrote: post #18
wood_spirit wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anthropic must be in some way better in that they do have some red lines and do truly stand on them (and if they didn’t, like every other company doesn’t seem to, we’d never have even known)?

Notice that Anthropic doesn't support spying on Americans specifically - spying on anyone else is fine. Can't spy on three specific 300m people, but spying on the other 7.7B totally ok.

Well, yes.

But the desire and ability to control non-citizens en masse is nothing like the threat a government is to its own citizens.

In practice the two activities have very different natures and impact.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by tombert »

wolframhempel wrote: post #9

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I never really understood people's need to post these cynical doomer posts. "Things can't be perfect so don't bother doing anything ever I am so smart".

Will a few dozen people canceling their accounts change anything? Probably not, but at least we know that we're not actively giving our money to Sam Altman.

There's not a lot in the world that any of us have control over. Most of us aren't billionaires who can buy a government. Really the only variable we have any amount of freedom with is how we spend our money.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by ddxv »

Nevermark wrote: post #24
ddxv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What value does this give you? Part of why I deleted my account was I couldn't think of a single thing of value in my chats from the past couple years? Maybe some nostalgia looking at what bugs I was fixing?

You’re confusing your situation with others. There are unlimited reasons someone else might want their chats.

Yeah, just curious what those reasons are? Like a valuable thought process you want to keep? Or like a data dump that is useful for looking at later?

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by ddxv »

puchatek wrote: post #28
ddxv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What value does this give you? Part of why I deleted my account was I couldn't think of a single thing of value in my chats from the past couple years? Maybe some nostalgia looking at what bugs I was fixing?

For me this is very valuable. The results of personal "research projects" are in there. I use it for reference. Of course I could ask Claude to get me those answers but why waste the energy?

Thank you, was just kind of curious. I've never really seen how other people use AI chats so was curious what the use cases were.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by wood_spirit »

vasco wrote: post #27
overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

The point is it will be autonomous, the prompt could just be 'keep me safe' which will be interpreted who knows how and presumably no further prompting.

Autonomous just means this narrative is what you’d see if you looked at the logs of the drone talking to itself in it’s head…?

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by tombert »

overgard wrote: post #25

I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"

Department of Defense: You just bombed the wrong Georgia! The people of Atlanta are furious!

ChatGPT: You're absolutely right, and you're right to call that out. Upon examination it does appear that there might have been a mistake with the coordinates of the bomb. Let's try again, this time we will double check before we launch any missiles! :missile emoji:

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Post by ddxv »

layer8 wrote: post #26
ddxv wrote: post #5

Just deleted my account. Can always sign up for a new account later if you need (with a different email).

Even with the same email, probably.

They specifically say you cannot reuse the same email. I also tried after deleting and it said this email has been deleted.
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