People are starting to boycott ChatGPT
The gist is that many are unhappy with OpenAI working closely with the Pentagon. They claim that AI is being used for ambiguous purposes, not very pacifist or positive. You get the idea.
A website has appeared where users can confirm their boycott of OpenAI and cancel their paid subscriptions. According to recent reports, about 2.5 million people have supposedly done this. There is also a gathering planned offline to protest killer robots and AI surveillance.
Currently, ChatGPT has approximately 800 million active users per week. However, most of them do not pay — statistics show that only about 10 million subscribe. If indeed that many people have unsubscribed, it would definitely be noticeable for OpenAI.
But there’s a nuance: they are not the only ones interacting with the U.S. military. The entire market, except for Anthropic, is connected to the Pentagon or military structures from various countries — large language models often belong to government contracts or orders. Changing this is difficult: Anthropic has honestly distanced itself from such ties (which is a plus), but what will happen next is still unclear.
For those interested — the website is available online.
P.S.: When I saw the fundraising campaign for a rally in San Francisco with the slogan “No Killer Robots,” I immediately thought of movies or games like Detroit — it seems that fantasies about complete robot control are still far from reality. And overall, there are not as many robots as forecasts suggest.
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