S. app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been rebranded under the Trump administration as the Department of War.
This data, which comes from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, represents a sizable increase compared with ChatGPT’s typical day-over-day uninstall rate of 9%, as measured over the past 30 days.
Meanwhile, U.S. downloads for OpenAI competitor Anthropic’s Claude jumped up by 37% day-over-day on Friday, February 27, and 51% as of Saturday, February 28, after the company announced that it would not partner with the U.S. defense department. Anthropic said it was not able to agree on the deal terms over concerns that AI would be used to surveil Americans and be used in fully autonomous weaponry, which AI is not yet ready to do safely.
You guys have it installed on your phone?? Lord in heaven
Why not just fedex Altman your SSN and mother’s maiden name to save yourself the trouble lmfao
People’s phones are my nightmare. I don’t want to know and i don’t want to see
Whenever I accidentally see someone else’s phone it haunts me
Anthropic said it was not able to agree on the deal terms over concerns that AI would be used to surveil Americans and be used in fully autonomous weaponry, which AI is not yet ready to do safely.
To add to this, Anthropic also said (in other words I do not recall) that even if AI could do it safely, there would be ethical concerns about oversight.
Good. Fuck ‘em.
Fuck the game up. America makes terrorists and school shooters, and it’s often on purpose, so be careful and understand the game.
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I am not subscribed to openai. Is there a way for me to not subscribe even harder?
I’d say pirate it but well cloud based and all kinda takes the wind from those sails.
ai piracy is still possible! Break into the openai servers and yoink the gpt 5.2 weights. and then publish them
Why would you break in, the AI is Open, is in the name. Just walk in duh
Why bother when you have GLM 5.0 😎
I convinced two friends to cancel their monthly sub. I guess that’s something.
Every little bit counts
What really sucks is Google is likely to remove all those 1 star reviews, they’ve done it before when shit like this happens.
Edit: i feel like a good review could be…
1 star. By using this service you’ll be helping ChatGPT autonomously surveil you through the government and murder you with robots without any human in the loop. Don’t let ChatGPT kill you!
Whenever I see a % data, I always believe the actual amount is really low. It just means on Saturday there were 4x the amount of uninstalls compared to every other day, which doesn’t seem much at all
it’s enough to be indicative
Only if you have the base amount. And still, for a company of this size, it’s not much
% is % is %… absolutes are completely irrelevant… 1m people uninstalling facebook is less relevant than 100 people uninstalling <insert your favourite indie game>
a large % change is always relevant no matter the company size. that’s the whole point
It’s not a % change of the entire user base, it’s a % change over the uninstalls. If there are 100 uninstalls per day for example, even a 2000% increase for a day is worthless
And even then, we probably need the number of installs per day to understand the actual impact
For statistics like this you need more information to know whether it’s significant. If they have 100m users and 5 people uninstall the app daily, it’s not going to make any difference if that number goes up to 15 uninstalls for one day.
Indeed, without an error estimated from fluctuations, etc I cannot conclude how significative it was such…
I didn’t have a subscription but I still deleted my account.
How people have one is beyond me, both from a moral and a financial point of view.
same
I’m surprised so many people were paying for it. Seems like more people want less ai not more these days.
Don’t forget we are in a perception bubble here.
Yes, but of that many people are already paying and they are still burning through billions, it’s even more of a bubble than I thought. The chance of.profitability with direct to consumer is less likely.
So clearly it will be mainly corporate and enshittified versions going forward.
People want less forced AI, but most people are fine with using it whenever they want
I’m one of them
But then I’m a student and work part time as a dev so I see the population that pretty much uses GenAI the most
Many of us are in our own little bubble. Nearly all regular folk use AI instead of Google now.
Some people are really deep in the sauce
I’ve switched to Mistral. It’s not quite on the same level of performance but certainly worth not being on a American dubious setup.
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I did it too and for that reason (dod contract)
But the fewer people who use it the less money they’ll lose
