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Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything . He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything . He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the str…

Ok.

I completely support the sentiment of what you wrote. But it doesn't directly seem relevant to the parent question.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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This administration has relentlessly demonstrated they will let no law or human right get in the way of their accumulation of unchecked power.

He tried to take congress's power through impoundment but not even his hand picked SCOTUS would permit that.

So instead he kidnapped a president, invaded Iran, bombed Nigeria, had masked unaccountables shoot people in the streets, threatens to seize elections and covers up crimes by flushing enough evidence down toilets that they need plumbers.

Along with that, defunding science, medical research, pulling funding from top tier universities, tearing up international treaties, threatening to invade Canada and Denmark all while building 24 camps and defunding pbs.

He runs MLMs and cryptocurrency pump and dumps from a demolished Whitehouse where he peddles trinkets from his online store, sells pardons, and tried to orchestrate a coup.

This is a Whitehouse that uses the 14 words, makes references to 1488, puts out AI deep fakes and fraudulent photographs as press releases that read like North Korean propaganda. One that defunds the weather service because of conspiracy theories.

One that shuts down battery research, puts mercury in the air, permits water pollution, and relentlessly defunds and dismantles powerful growth sectors that are driving the economies of our global competitors.

This administration both sabotaged the importing of basic components used in domestic manufacturing through exorbitant tariffs and the production of domestic alternatives through relentless litigation and threats.

There is no excuse whatsoever for empowering them.

It's a relentless, exhaustive, strategic sabotaging of the american economy and basic civil government; one that Osama Bin Laden could never have even dreamed of.

If any replies accuse me of being a democrat (I'm not) or try to deflect, I will not engage.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Story time!

I actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription in late 2024 and documented the process, kind of as a social media thing because it had gotten so bad and I realized nobody in my family was using it anymore. I asked my wife if she was getting any use out of it and she told me she had been using Gemini and Grok for months because "GPT is very lazy now".

After a while another charge came in for the subscription, but I had the receipts: we had cancelled before the next billing cycle. I decided to try and reach out to OpenAI to resolve this, but they only let you chat with GPT itself for this, which it failed at and told me they weren't in the wrong and none of the information matched what actually happened.

I took this and used it to submit a chargeback request with Privacy.com, which I use for all of my online purchases. Normally I don't have to worry about this because I set a limit or cancel the cards I issue manually, but I had an OpenAI API account using the same card and I had been a bit lazy in using the same card for technically two different services.

Well, Privacy.com won that dispute and I got that money back. It's worth mentioning this is actually different than most banks will do now days. For the most part when you try to get a bank to do a chargeback they just roll it into their insurance and refund you the customer as a cost of doing business, but the actual scammer or shady merchant got to keep their stolen money, whereas I can be certain OpenAI didn't keep my money.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything . He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything . He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the str…

Sam (and Greg Brockman) want something they do not have, very desperately. They want to win, to be Great Men, to be remembered by history with Jobs and Gates and the other tech luminaries. This is mentioned in Karen Hao's Empire of AI.

They are both a lesson to me that no matter how much you have, you will not necessarily be satisfied.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything . He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything . He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the str…

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." -- Warren Buffet

The original context was very different, about financial markets, but I've been thinking about it a lot the past 12 months. There's a lot of cowards in high places in tech, surprisingly cowardly people. Or they have sold out their principles to be friends with terrible people, which is also a form of cowardice. Hard to say which.

The whole Epstein thing is a really really great marker of this too. Though I'm not sure if the tide has gone out all the way (we mostly know what's going on), or if there's a lot more tide to fall.

LBJ was a real son of a bitch, who, when he finally was thrust into power as president, did something pretty surprising by going all-in on the civil rights movement. Power reveals who people are, and times of trials reveal who people really are.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah, interesting. It’s not clear why they would do that, unless they are using the email address as the sole account ID.

They clearly are, and Anthropic too. That's why you can't change the email address on an account.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything . He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything . He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the str…

I am eagerly waiting for the afterlife.

Re: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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Story time! I actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription in late 2024 and documented the process, kind of as a social media thing because it had gotten so bad and I realized nobody in my family was using it anymore. I asked my wife if she was getting any use out of it and she told me she had been using Gemini and Grok for months because "GPT is very lazy now". After a while another charge came in for the subscription…

Your credibility is shot when you claim that banks will just give you money. They absolutely do not. In fact, Discover has admitted to me in writing, that they always rule in favor of the Merchant if that Merchant responds to the dispute -- regardless of what their response says.

I've dealt with multiple chargebacks over the years and have only ever lost once -- when the Manager at Lowes' showed a check they wrote me [after I opened the dispute].

They absolutely do not just do anything and "write it off". Please be human and don't just rattle of high-confidence, baseless claims, especially as a giant billboard to Privacy.com

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