‘Cancel ChatGPT’ trends as users protest OpenAI’s Pentagon deal

Sam Altman-led OpenAI recently signed an agreement with the US Department of War to deploy technology on the department’s classified network. However, the move has sparked immediate backlash for the AI company with thousands of ChatGPT users sharing posts on Reddit claiming to be cancelling their ChatGPT subscriptions. Posts titled “You’re now training a war machine. Let’s see proof of cancellation”, and “Time to cancel ChatGPT Plus after three Years. Anthropic got nuked for having ethics, and Sam Altman instantly swooped in for the Pentagon bag” have got thousands of upvote on the platform.

Aidan Gold, an X user shared a post revealing the irony of how OpenAI, which backed Anthropic’s stand for AI safety, swooped in by submitting a bid to replace Anthropic in the Pentagon contract.