Viewpoint: Should you quit ChatGPT on ethical grounds?

Credit: Nathan Kuczmarski/Unsplash
Credit: Nathan Kuczmarski/Unsplash

QuitGPT is one of the latest salvos in a growing movement by activists and disaffected users to cancel their subscriptions. In just the past few weeks, users have flooded Reddit with stories about quitting the chatbot. Many lamented the performance of GPT-5.2, the latest model. Others shared memes parodying the chatbotโ€™s sycophancy. … Still, others are protesting against what they see as a deepening entanglement between OpenAI and the Trump administration.

Dozens of left-leaning teens and twentysomethings scattered across the US came together to organize QuitGPT in late January. They range from pro-democracy activists and climate organizers to techies and self-proclaimed cyber libertarians ….

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The information that ICE uses a rรฉsumรฉ screening tool powered by ChatGPT-4 came from an AI inventory published by the Department of Homeland Security in January.

โ€œWe make a big enough stink for OpenAI that all of the companies in the whole AI industry have to think about whether theyโ€™re going to get away enabling Trump and ICE and authoritarianism,โ€ says an organizer of QuitGPT….

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