[zmmmmm]

It's an interesting strategy, I see a pretty big risk from them leaning into it like this. We already have a vibe in my circles of the old "gmail vs yahoo" type thing where if you saw someone had a yahoo mail address you assumed they were technologically illiterate. Similarly it's mildly embarrassing already to say you used ChatGPT for something. It's not unrecoverable, but it's a pretty steep slippery slope they probably don't want to be anywhere near if they care about enterprise.

[voganmother42]

After the DoD moves? It is not just the technologically illiterate, it is part of the US culture war. OpenAI is the MAGA brand, like tesla.

[gunsle]

What an absurd leap. OpenAI is the maga brand because they simp for government contracts like any massive company would?

[voganmother42]

Did you miss the cancel/unsubscribe gpt boycott? It was only about a month ago. Many people I know cancelled/unsubscribed. To be fair though, most people I have talked with needed almost no encouragement to move to anthropic or google (better products, easy to switch etc). Consumer sentiment can change quickly.

[parineum]

Many people in your bubble cancelled.

[maronato]

Caitlin Kalinowski and other OpenAI employees resigned because of it [1].

ChatGPT uninstalls rose by 295%, downloads fell 13% on day one and a further 5% the next day [2].

One-star reviews spiked 775% overnight, then doubled again the following day [2].

1.5 million users joined the QuitGPT boycott within days [1].

Claude rose to #1 most downloaded app in the App Store and US usage rose by 51% [2].

New customers are now choosing Claude over OpenAI 70% of the time [1].

And much more. I think it was just your bubble that didn’t cancel it.

[1] https://letsdatascience.com/blog/altman-called-the-pentagon-...

[2] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/openai-backlash-pentagon-partnersh...

[parineum]

I'm aware that it happened. You seem under the impression that this is some kind of mass exodus based on people you know.

Uninstalls up 300%! What's the baseline?

> downloads fell 13% on day one and a further 5% the next day

Dramatic falloff of new downloads after one day (still plenty of new downloads). Day 3 was likely negligible and, I bet, it was back to normal less than a week after when the story left the news cycle.

> 1.5 million users joined the QuitGPT boycott within days

That's both very few people and a completely meaningless number since all it requires is checking a box. Did anyone verify they were actually human?

> Claude rose to #1 most downloaded app in the App Store and US usage rose by 51% [2].

> New customers are now choosing Claude over OpenAI 70% of the time [1].

Which has nothing to do with cancellations.

> And much more. I think it was just your bubble that didn’t cancel it.

Most people in my bubble have no idea any of this happened and are just using free chatgpt tier if they use it at all. That seems much more representative given your provided statistics of the 1.5m person boycott.

[voganmother42]

Perhaps, but it was pretty widely reported on, if you care to look.

[lmm]

Like Anthropic notably refused to.