I'm one of the people that canceled my OpenAI Plus subscription after Sam Altman demonstrated his lack of integrity last week.

I like to think I'm doing something, but honestly I am not sure that it would make a difference if literally every consumer canceled their subscription at this point. They now have an "in" with the slush fund that we call "US military contracting", which is probably worth more than what they were going to make from all the people who canceled their accounts. Not to mention their bribes to our president, meaning that the markets can always be rigged in their favor.

Anthropic are really suffering with the influx of new users, multiple times per day there are alerts.

What I find surprising is that I knew Altman is a horrible human being and a terrible steward of the AI revolution, yet I still got disappointed.

I canceled before this, but I definitely can’t see myself renewing chatgpt because of this and so much other shadiness.

I just don’t want them to succeed anymore, and I don’t think there’s really any world where they regain my trust.

And to be clear I don’t expect my actions do make a difference, I just would feel dirty now that they have gotten into bed with this administration. Plus I should probably assume I’d have zero privacy now too…

Unless ~800k users cancel it is still a net positive for them and that is with the current relatively small contract they have. The reality is that money is in B2B.

I generally don’t have faith that many consumer boycotts will work, but boy is it ever easy to switch away from openAI.

Imagine if OpenAI fails one day and sells to a company like Palantir. What would happen to all of the sensitive data that they're sitting on?

I regret ever having signed up. But not only because of this. Also because they just don't clearly say that they don't analyze, read or even use my prompts - it just freaks me out that some derived or "anonymized" version of my prompt is saved or even used for training other models.

Hegseth declared quite unofficially (on X) that any company that does business with the US military must cease all business interactions with Anthropic. If that actually becomes an official thing, that will be worth billions lost to Anthropic, whereas a ChatGPT boycott by a few million people (who probably weren't using it that much anyway) is mostly a drop in the bucket.

The only thing that will save OpenAI is a miracle. The deals only prolong the pain. Just end it already. Nobody wants their products. We want affordable RAM and SSD.

i mean, if Chinese AI companies are constantly distilling the latest anthropic models, and those companies are closely tied to the CCP/PLA, aren't anthropic models already being used for military purposes?

Should have done it earlier [0] when no-one cared and the signs were all there.

Anyway this boycott is going to fail. Why? Because Claude was used for not only the Venezuela operation [1] but also the one in Iran [2].

Remember Anthropic never objected to military use in foreign operations, but only domestic. So if the government never made that request to Anthropic, there wouldn't be any outrage, and military use would continue with the (illegal) war in Iran still using Anthropic as a vendor.

So no different to how P̶a̶l̶a̶n̶t̶i̶r̶ Anthropic is already used in the middle east.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-mi...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/us-milita...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-iran-war-u-...

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