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1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT
- andsoitis 8mo agoUnlike 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.
- johnbarron 8mo agoSo the investors would pound the same amount of money, into a platform with dwelling number of users?
- Finnucane 8mo agoDwindling 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.
- estimator7292 8mo agoDwindling, and probably, yes. For a while, anyway.
- belter 8mo ago[dead]
- zamalek 8mo agoUnfortunately the US military has very deep pockets.
- BoredPositron 8mo agoThe 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.
- CrzyLngPwd 8mo agoWhere every employee can watch the news to see how many people their efforts are killing.
- tw-20260303-001 8mo agoApparently 27% of the population of the USA wouldn't have a problem doing exactly that.
- general_reveal 8mo agoIn 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.
- verdverm 8mo agoNo where near as deep as the broader economy. It is likely more profitable to pass on the govt contracts for the foreseeable future
- openenough 8mo ago[dead]
- gigel82 8mo agoI 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.
- jeanloolz 8mo agoI 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)
- rjh29 8mo agoWhat do you use for code? I use Gemini CLI and it seems pretty competent and it's cheap.
- radicality 8mo agoOn 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.
- tedd4u 8mo agoI would imagine they chose to cap the resources spend on batch processing for this export function.
- trashface 8mo agoI 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.
- Traster 8mo agoBollocks. <name> (optional) <email> (optional) join the boycott! 1.5m have essentially signed an e-petition. I hate this e-pteition things.
- nom 8mo agoThey made name and email optional. You just click a button on their page. The endpoint was hit 2.5 Million times.
- Crosseye_Jack 8mo agoNot 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"
- apercu 8mo agoI'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.
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoRelated large discussions: How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997 OpenAI – How to delete your account https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230990
- robinhood 8mo agoThis story is such a click bait. A random website makes baseless claims and everyone takes this as face value.
- ossisjxish 8mo ago[dead]
- AuthAuth 8mo agoIts 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.
- johnbarron 8mo ago"ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal" - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-by-295-after-dod-deal/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...
- applicative 8mo agoI 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.
- jimmydoe 8mo agoClaude has been so unusable in last few days that I moved to ChatGPT.