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1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT

forbes.com

81 pointsjohnbarron27 comments

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.

So the investors would pound the same amount of money, into a platform with dwelling number of users?

Dwindling number. But maybe? I mean, they're already investing at a level that's completely disconnected from actual results, based on magical thinking and hopium. Just take another hit.

Dwindling, and probably, yes. For a while, anyway.

Unfortunately the US military has very deep pockets.

The New American Dream: Start as a non-profit dedicated to humanity, pivot to a for-profit to scale and eventually find your final form as a subsidiary of the military industrial complex.

Where every employee can watch the news to see how many people their efforts are killing.

Apparently 27% of the population of the USA wouldn't have a problem doing exactly that.

In other words, US tax payers are already paying customers of OpenAI, a few simply won’t be a “double” customer. This isn’t “exactly” fascism, no. It’s something though.

No where near as deep as the broader economy. It is likely more profitable to pass on the govt contracts for the foreseeable future

This story is such a click bait. A random website makes baseless claims and everyone takes this as face value.

Its scary how often that happens these days. People are incapable of verifying claims due to how many layers deep things go and lazy publications can mistakenly legimatise false claims.

"ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal" - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

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.

I probably don't understand it but, the reports are all that it is Anthropic, not OpenAI, that is the one supplying the AI fuel for the present Iran war. (Thus the delay in the imagined military rejection of Anthropic). Meanwhile OpenAI says it has exactly the same principles and 'red lines' but is somehow implementing them differently. They seem to agree that they do not differ in any of the respects in question. The real story has to be completely different.

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.

I would imagine they chose to cap the resources spend on batch processing for this export function.

I started mine monday and it never finished (never got the email saying its ready). I started it again on tuesday and it finished in two hours. Maybe they just had a surge of exports on monday.

Related large discussions:

How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997

OpenAI – How to delete your account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230990

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

They made name and email optional. You just click a button on their page.

The endpoint was hit 2.5 Million times.

Not even 2.5 million API hits. If you hover over the [1] next to the 2.5mill number it reads.

"Estimate based on website signatures, share counts on social media, and credible app usage data"

Claude has been so unusable in last few days that I moved to ChatGPT.

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.

I switched a very long time ago when Gemini was released and it was a very easy switch at the time. I have never missed ChatGPT and due to current circumstances I'm kind of happy I made the switch. It woukd be a lot harder for me now to switch from Gemini (except for code of course)

What do you use for code? I use Gemini CLI and it seems pretty competent and it's cheap.

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