"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley

"We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT."

https://quitgpt.org/

#QuitGPT #news #USNews #USPol #technology #TechNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #GenAI

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

The Guardian

Worth noting that while QuitGPT lists Claude as an alternative, they're definitely not the "good guys".

"One might take this to be somewhat altruistic — Dario Amodei doesn’t want the US military to hit civilians — but remember: Anthropic is totally fine with the US military using Claude for anything else, even though hallucinations are an inevitable result of using a Large Language Model."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/

And to a lesser degree:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205943/anthropic-ai-web-crawler-claudebot-ifixit-scraping-training-data

The AI Bubble Is An Information War

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@state Can't seem to be able to load this article, but from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/01/claude-anthropic-iran-strikes-us-military

"Anthropic objected, pointing to its terms of use which do not allow Claude to be applied for violent ends, to develop weapons or for surveillance."

To their credit, I guess.

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban

Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

The Guardian
@state Although you could criticize them for having a deal with the US military at all, of course.