Mastodawn

I know the general consensus here is fullstop fuck AI.

But, that being said, Anthropic had a $200M Pentagon contract and was the first AI lab on classified networks. They refused to let their AI be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons. The Pentagon wanted unrestricted access "for all lawful purposes."

Negotiations collapsed. Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic, called them "radical left" and said he "fired them like dogs." Hegseth slapped them with a supply chain risk designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries.

Even after the blacklist, Claude was still being used in US military operations in Iran.

Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits on March 9. Dozens of OpenAI and DeepMind researchers filed an amicus brief backing them. OpenAI signed a Pentagon deal hours after the blacklist.

So, last month-ish I canceled a long-standing ChatGPT subscription and swapped to a Claude Max subscription.

Vote with your wallet.

https://quitgpt.org/

#AI #LLM #FuckTrump #FuckDonaldTrump #Anthropic #Claude #quitgpt

QuitGPT — ChatGPT takes Trump's killer robot deal

Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

Scripter

23h ago

ChatGPT: Warum Nutzer wechseln - wie ein Umzug gelingt - Nachrichten - WDR
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/open-ai-chatgpt-quitgpt-proteste-wechsel-claude-100.html #Chatbot #ChatGPT #QuitGPT

Sebastian Büttrich @ ITU 1d ago

“#Meta, #Google and #Microsoft have all baked [generative AI] deep into their systems,” Joshi says. “I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts

#thereIsNoAI #QuitGPT

The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?

As the QuitGPT movement gains momentum, should people concerned about the environmental impacts of AI consider opting out?

The Guardian

MediaFaro Analysis 1d ago

#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?

It started quietly, with a handful of posts on tech forums and Reddit explaining why and how you should uninstall and unsubscribe from ChatGPT.

Now the campaign #QuitGPT has more than 4 million participants worldwide, and the numbers are still climbing.

FRANCE 24 tech journalist Charlotte Lam tells us more.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260316-quitgpt-can-an-ai-boycott-really-change-big-tech?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#AI #QuitGPT #OpenAI #BigTech #Business #Tech #ChatGPT #Boycott

#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?

It started quietly, with a handful of posts on tech forums and Reddit explaining why and how you should uninstall and unsubscribe from ChatGPT. Now the campaign #QuitGPT has more …

France24

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XNHQ 1d ago

@GOKUSHRM @Tutanota Lucky! I wish I never joined either but at least I deleted mine 4 months ago. #quitgpt

Evan Genest 2d ago

Reasons to Stop Supporting OpenAI and ChatGPT

https://pikl.us/qingeg50

https://pikl.us/midpyk99

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| OpenAI enabled mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, aligning with authoritarian policies. |

| Record breaking levels of enshittification: OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission, prioritizing a race to the bottom with being among the pioneers of pornography, advertising, and deliberately harmful addiction.

| OpenAI is the top spender behind a gargantuan $125 million+ AI Super PAC that attacks anyone who threatens to regulate them.

| OpenAI execs are Trump's biggest donors. OpenAI's president Greg Brockman was the largest donor to Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc in their latest year-end report, committing $25 million to cozy up to the White House.

| Boycotting OpenAI sends a message: consumers won’t support companies that harm society.

| Some movement is happening. We want to nurture and reinforce positive brands by amplifying the punishment of negative brands. We are providing cover for positive moves by companies. First was Anthropic (Claude), followed by Microsoft. |

| Market share of the chatgpt app dropped from 69% to 45%, people care. We can amplify that.

| Many alternatives demonstrate ethical AI is possible without compromising safety. Some higher privacy and open-source alternatives include: Lumo, Confer, Mistral, and LLaMA. Alternate corporate options include Gemini from Google and Claude from Anthropic.
#boycott #quitgpt #claude #mistral #openai #bigtech