Unlike social networks or auction platforms, the mass departure of users (this isn’t that), would not affect the quality of experience of those remaining. There’s not the same network effects.

I hope this keeps momentum. If nothing else, it may force assholes like Altman to think a little bit about the impact of a decision to sell services to a government / military.

And it may lead some folks into discovering privacy-preserving local inference as an alternative for a lot of use cases, which is always a plus.

On topic of just data requests from OpenAI - this article says “Be aware that this process isn’t instant”

I did notice this an wonder what changed - I do periodic data backups of various services, and up until recently it was impressive, as ChatGPTs email with data zip file link arrived maybe within 1-3 min of the request, for around a ~1GB file. I have similar amount of data now (even less, I pruned some), yet now the file takes a really long time to prepare and receive.

Bollocks. <name> (optional) <email> (optional) join the boycott! 1.5m have essentially signed an e-petition. I hate this e-pteition things.

I'm also in process of migrating away from OpenAI - I don't like the management, the product has quirks I can't stand, and now the latest PR disaster.