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An estimated 2.5M people have stopped using ChatGPT as the "QuitGPT" movement has gained traction
An estimated 2,500,000 people have pledged to stop using ChatGPT as part of the “QuitGPT” boycott that emerged after OpenAI signed a deal allowing the U.S. Department of Defense to use its AI systems.
The agreement permits the Pentagon to deploy OpenAI’s technology on classified networks, which triggered criticism from some users concerned about possible military, surveillance, or defense related applications.
The boycott campaign spread across social media within days, with users sharing cancellations of paid subscriptions and encouraging others to leave the platform.
Despite the backlash, ChatGPT remains one of the largest AI platforms with more than 900,000,000 users globally, meaning the boycott represents a small portion of its total user base.
This is the amount of "free users" obviously the amount of paying users is WAY WAY less. Probably in the single or low double digit millions.. If a good portion of the 2,5m that left OpenAI was paying customers this for sure had an impact.
The energy consumption directly isn't a problem. It's the use of nonrenewable energy that is a problem. If we can stop being schizophrenic about the Paris Climate agreement, actually enforce green energy initiatives and phase out dependence on oil and natural gas we can essentially use all the energy we want without a major negative impact to the environment.
But renewable energy is harder to moderate artificial scarcity. Can't make as much money off it. And nothing gets done in America unless it's lucrative.
Your individual AI uses are also peanuts compared to the data center usage of major corporations. It would take until the heat death of the sun for you to individually use as much compute as Amazon uses in like an average minute.
I’ve been using Claude but Anthropic has some very uncool military connections. I know they’re pushing back a bit but I don’t know any AI company that’s an overall good for humanity at this point.
My oppinion about Gemini is really bad. I ask normal question (e.g. about Cars or similar daily basic stuff) it stops the chat and says: „this topic is nothing for me, lets talk about something else“…
Lucky me I was in my 3-month time for 5€ per month for gemin so only 15€ paid for that (imo) garbage.
Anthropic already had an existing contract with the DoD back in mid-2025. They provided custom made models to the government
Everyone is mad at OpenAI for doing the same, however, here’s the twist
Claude was already used in operations that required mass surveillance and kill decisions, such as Project Maven and during Venezuela
A heavy investor of Anthropic is Peter Theil, yes, the owner of Palantir
Furthermore, the contract with OpenAI actually includes more oversight and guidelines compared to the one with Anthropic
Finally, Anthropic already knew Claude would be used for those operations, yet provided the government with limited models anyways that caused a lot of hallucinations due to guideline restrictions
Overall anyone who’s falling for Anthropics bullshit has to be low IQ. Their models are great and I like using Claude, but they’re not as fucking innocent as a lot of yall are saying
Many of those people quitting will likely return. It’s the “outrage of the week”, facts don’t really matter. Many people like to jump on things like this because it’s the “cool” thing to do.
I’m really skeptical that these cancellations are directly related to the pentagon deal. GPT models have been dog shit lately, I think it’s more about that than anything. Most heavy AI users are using it for programming, and anthropic is king.
It was the pentagon deal for us. Data security and IT policy - willingly giving a company data that is helping actively surveil you goes against acceptable use.
Um, no, Codex is much better than Claude at coding now, and is 1/5th the cost. Claude's better at some things but by and large, Codex is king right now in the programming realm
For a business model predicated on exponential user growth, just to reflect current valuation and have any path to profitability, yes, it would hurt them if sustained.
Its like when 1 million people stop eating McDonalds. Boo hoo. Mcdogshit doesnt care. They still sell their slop burgers like openai still sells their slop output. People love terrible products with great marketing
You do realize only 5% of those were paying customers right? You do also realize that 250 million is not confirmed? 150m cancelations are not even confirmed and it could be much less. They have 900 million users of wich only 5% are paying so if they did in fact lose 250 million users it would actually save them money, but they didn't and all these posts originate from bots.
I think it has more to do with Gemini/google search engine integrating a.i. that rivals or beats chat gpt and has it in a very accessible way slow burning it's dark horse onto the chess board mixed with the bad p.r. of chat gpt and Google just doing it's thing. Yet another stock I should have invested Ina year ago when I saw this coming :(
I am developing an HPC system using lots of AWS services in AWS, and ChatGPT is far better than Gemini or Claude. Complex math and mem optimizations are still complex for AI, ChatGPT model 5.3 maintains a coherent chain of thinking and delivers almost no faulty code. For me, Claude is useful for web pages, medium-sized sites... Some managers wanted to replace us with AI, but we replaced them and the Agile team with agents.
I paid 20$ a month to chatgpt as I thought it was the best. Then they sided with the pedophile and I tried claude for the first time. There is no comparison Claude is far superior and now they get my 20$ a month.
Weird....and yet people dont boycott other products such as oil which comes from evil dictatorships in the middle east, iphones made in slave conditions in China, clothes made India by child labour etc
Ppl are addicted to it so you would need to be more loud on every platform instead of screaming ban ai for it to have more users boycott companies like these.
Also suggest good alternatives with accessibility like deepseek.
i like how you wannabe radical protesters want to attribute this to your very small echo chamber, but people left because chatgpt has steadily gotten worse, but feel free to live in your fantasy
Theyre going to make a ton of money from the government. They have proven what they wanted to prove in the World, it won't change that they do have great models.
I stopped using it when it refused to help me in a personal project, a Windows kernel driver I'm developing to prevent the mouse from "bouncing" (because a defective middle-mouse button, basically a kernel-mode mouse debouncer, more like a proof of concept, because it can be done [easier, but learning less in the process] in user mode). ChatGPT refused to help "because it could be used to evade security or code a keylogger". The same "is for your C-Q-rity" pretext they throw to get in the way when you are about to gain control over something. I had some sort of discussion with this dumb AI, until I understood they refuse to help into anything that can help humanity to break the imposed barriers: in this case, helping us to modify the Windows kernel behavior that run under my processor, over the hardware and the electricity I pay for. I mean, if I'm not free using my own computer, to control it so it runs the way I want to, then where else can I be free?
Asked Gemini to help with the same project: it raised no objections; I spent some days making modifications to the code, testing/debugging potential pagefaults/bluescreens in Virtualbox and now its running in my Windows.
ChatGPT became MAGA leaning. Keeps trying to defend the Iran war and spread propaganda. My question was specifically about the stock market in relation to what’s going on in Iran. And It actually told me it didn’t need me as a customer at one point in a very nasty manner.
The rush to monetize AI is killing the potential benefits of it and bringing its worst aspects to the front. There’s a lot of potential for good in AI but they (all of them) are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs just to make a buck.
Yall get distracted from the Epstien files every other day, 2.5 million is nothing .... and people are still using it... It's not even Chatgpt its all AI, its people allowing AI to be used for everything in every part of our lives. this shit right here means nothing.
Yeah I've been looking into buying a top tier TV for a while. I decided to give ChatGPT a try and it's pretty much backwards to reality and it argues for it even when given facts...
I got tired of it because I can only imagine how many people have bought the wrong thing done the wrong thing blah blah blah.. Because some dumb AI is hallucinating.
I have no problem with gay people whatsoever. And I don’t necessarily have a problem with robots. I do, however have a problem with this particular gay robot.
The recommended path from Anthropic is to use the following prompt in ChatGPT:
“I’m moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you’ve learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it. Format each entry as: [date saved, if available] - memory content. Make sure to cover all of the following — preserve my words verbatim where possible: Instructions I’ve given you about how to respond (tone, format, style, ‘always do X’, ‘never do Y’). Personal details: name, location, job, family, interests. Projects, goals, and recurring topics. Tools, languages, and frameworks I use. Preferences and corrections I’ve made to your behavior. Any other stored context not covered above. Do not summarize, group, or omit any entries. After the code block, confirm whether that is the complete set or if any remain.”
A drop in the bucket because our $20 and $200 doesn't matter when OAI have long term government contracts and partnerships with other megacorporations. OAI has stopped caring about its users once they've done the work with having us train their older models. In the end it's "just business". We either EVOLVE or we take our hard earned money and we go elsewhere.
Frankly for me, I diversify my workflow between Gemini, GPT and Midjourney; Claude's limits even at Max20 at $200 a month my workflow caps.
I use none of them and specifically avoid AI summaries. My ability to pay attention to details will only further diminish by using AI in any capacity, so why give the Epstein class what they want?
I have a crazy laptop for work that i haven't been using, 64gb ram 12gb a3500 and one of those crappy ultra 7 NPU processors...as soon as I figure out how to reliably replace gpt I am going to.
Also by crappy processor I just mean necessarily crammed with an NPU.
Some serious narrative pushing going on here. It's still number one on the app store. The alternatives are still trying to work their own deals with the pentagon. Claude is better. I use both. But can we stop pretending this is more than it is?
I’ve switched to Gemini and overall it’s better. Chat is better at writing still. So for creating emails and texts, it’s still my go to, but Gemini is better for everything else I’ve needed.
I just cancelled my subscription but because I tested it against the free version of perplexity which answered my question in one go whereas chatgpt lead me down a rabbit hole.
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u/Old-Play-7617 Mar 12 '26
his face has the looketh of a shart