1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT(www.forbes.com)
66 pointsby johnbarron7 hours ago8 comments
  • robinhood3 hours ago
    This story is such a click bait. A random website makes baseless claims and everyone takes this as face value.
  • andsoitis6 hours ago
    Unlike 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.
    • johnbarron6 hours ago
      So the investors would pound the same amount of money, into a platform with dwelling number of users?
      • zamalek6 hours ago
        Unfortunately the US military has very deep pockets.
        • BoredPositron6 hours ago
          The 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.
          • CrzyLngPwd4 hours ago
            Where every employee can watch the news to see how many people their efforts are killing.
        • verdverm3 hours ago
          No where near as deep as the broader economy. It is likely more profitable to pass on the govt contracts for the foreseeable future
        • general_reveal4 hours ago
          In 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.
      • estimator72926 hours ago
        Dwindling, and probably, yes. For a while, anyway.
      • Finnucane6 hours ago
        Dwindling 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.
    • openenough5 hours ago
      [dead]
  • radicality6 hours ago
    On 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.

    • trashface3 hours ago
      I 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.
    • tedd4u5 hours ago
      I would imagine they chose to cap the resources spend on batch processing for this export function.
  • apercu5 hours ago
    I'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.
  • ChrisArchitect4 hours ago
    Related large discussions:

    How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997

    OpenAI – How to delete your account

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478

  • Traster5 hours ago
    Bollocks. <name> (optional) <email> (optional) join the boycott! 1.5m have essentially signed an e-petition. I hate this e-pteition things.
    • nom4 hours ago
      They made name and email optional. You just click a button on their page.

      The endpoint was hit 2.5 Million times.

      • Crosseye_Jack4 hours ago
        Not 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"

  • gigel826 hours ago
    I 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.

    • jeanloolz4 hours ago
      I 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)
      • rjh293 hours ago
        What do you use for code? I use Gemini CLI and it seems pretty competent and it's cheap.