I need one clarification : If I start using chatGPT like crazy, without a subscription, does this help (by making user numbers look good) or hinder (by burning computing resources for no revenue) the company ?
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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I'd say both, but it probably hinders the people having to live next to the data centers more than the company with effectively infinite money
People paid for ChatGPT?
Last I saw they have something like 900,000,000 active users with around 50,000,000 on a paid plan of some form.
I just cancelled 👍🏽
sam altman is con artist. his whole career is a scam
I have barely used any of the AI products that have been around for the last few years. But what little I have used them for they've been fairly adequate for my desires I can't imagine paying for that though.
Like I use co-pilot (because management insist we use it for something), to rewrite emails into corporate speak. And I guess it's nice not to have to do that anymore but it's not something I'd pay for.
I just don't understand these AI bros I really don't.
I'm a programmer, AI is really good at programming and I use it everyday at work. But you really need to be careful and read and understand EVERY LINE the AI gave you and judge if it's correct architecturally, maintainable, fits the direction of the product etc etc etc.
I let it write tests and mundane mapping functions mostly, but it's still pretty useful as an "assistant".
The tech bros all come from this programming world and I think they got a bit too enthousiastic about the technology. An LLM is not a human brain.
I hate chatbots because they are an affront to personhood, language, and the very concept of meaning. You hate chatbots because some of the manufacturers donate to a political party in a failing empire.
We are allies
I hate chatbots because they don't work. If any of this technology actually operated as advertised I would be ecstatic. But none of it does.
Not only has AI failed to give us a warp drive, it's also failed to do my very simple job for me.
They're quite good at generating text that sounds reasonably like speech to people. Problem is, that's not actually useful.
They're just gonna suckle harder at that MIC teat.
Technology under capitalism is researched and developed for the sake of violent control.
Yep, they've already shown who will bend the knee and slob the orange-tinged knob.
Unfortunately I can't help with the acceleration. Can't cancel a subscription that never started
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People pay for GPT?!
Can't cancel a subscription I never had.
Sorry. I can't do that. I can't cancel my subscription to Chatgpt. I just can't......
......because I never subscribed in the first place.
My only regret is I never had a chatgpt subscription in the first place to cancel.
I used it for assisting with grammar and spelling as well as helping me figure out Obsidian.
Gonna cancel. Fuck Altman and fuck PEDOnald and fuck everyone involved. Moving over to Claude.
(Sorry I can't afford to pay actual editors. I make pennies.)
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Can we get some citations besides an image someone posted? I did a cursory look and couldn’t substantiate any of this. The only real news is Nvidia saying their last round of investments in openAI and Anthropic would probably be their last.
Genuine question. I know it’s fun to hate on AI slop and openAI in general, but there are enough real facts, don’t feel like we need any made up ones to win folks over
I'd say the news that they lost their biggest source of financing is more than enough.
All claims appear in this artcle.
Thank you for at least finding an article. I sadly have to agree that this is an op-ed piece and that it does differ a bit from the picture.
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go and cancel your subscription. I personally just don’t feel that we need to resort to exaggerated or false claims. Actual, verifiable facts are pretty damning on their own, the donations and super pacs alone are enough reasons to justify boycotting them. That doesn’t even include their defense contracts or ICE contracts. Heck, the environmental impact and the impact on consumer goods’ prices are enough on their own.
But we don’t need to make stuff up or spin it in a way to exaggerate a message to support an agenda. We get enough of that shit from AI slop articles making news up as it is.
That article is an opinion piece, which is stated at the top. Then if you follow the link to what Sam Altman said
Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘screwed up’ the writing quality on ChatGPT 5.2 – and promises future versions won’t ‘neglect’ it.
So right there we have some exaggeration or misinterpretation. This place is being like r/conservative where anything goes as long as it fits our ideals and I’m not down for that.
I’m not defending OpenAI. Im defending that we don’t spread misinformation. Plenty of actual shit as the other person said.
I'm in postgrad study at the moment and the amount of university students that rely on ChatGPT for 80%+ of their assignment/project work has really shaken my trust in the current gen coming out of higher education.
This is after the unit lecturers have each belaboured the point that GenAI must be 'used responsibly and with care to triple-check any output is valid and understood - and that any confirmed plagiarism or hallucinated references are an 'instant zero' on assignments.
They don't care. It's easier than reading textbooks and thinking.
(All this to say - I don't think #QuitChatGPT will have much effect on those using it regularly, regardless of their morals)
I swear I don't understand college students who work so hard not to learn.
It's like they want to get as little education for their money as possible.
Because being more intelligent than before isn't the point anymore. It's to get a $50k certificate that says you can do jobs unrelated to what you studied. It's shows that you are breakable and thus likely to be a good worker.
Because they're not going to college to learn, they're going to get a degree. The prevailing mentality is "I'm paying for this so that I can go through the motions and graduate so that I'll meet the minimum qualifications for an entry level position."
It's a result of the commodification of education: treating universities like a business rather than as centers of learning. Everything's transactory.
Professors are afraid to fail students because the administration wants the best retention ratings, and cause bad reviews might mean they lose their jobs.
Oh, and because expecting college students to actually learn something is elitist, apparently...
Don't get caught forming coherent thoughts in complete sentences with proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Someone might accuse you of being petite bourgeois and get your professor fired for playing favorites...
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It’s gonna be like when cell phones got popular and suddenly no one could remember anyone’s phone number anymore, but this time it will be that they can’t remember anything
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When you use ChatGPT you chat with Trump!
Cancel your subscription today!
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It is kinda concerning how few people actually remember the 2008 Recession and what precedent the US state solidified in its response. A key feature of neoliberal politics is the extraction of public capital through state subsidies and cronyist deal-making. These companies understand that bailouts are a genuine and secure route for capital injection should they sustain a consistent loss. Y'all think it's a coincidence all this coverage of AI company losses followed their realization that there is no way for the US to build up its infrastructure to effectively challenge Chinese AI capabilities?
This is the business model, it's why they're so open and vocal about AI sucking even though they depend on its speculative value and its why they've spent so much on collecting liquidation assets in hardware and real-estate despite the obvious inability to meet the infrastructure demands.
Oh I remember 2008 quite. I lost most of my teenage years to homelessness because economies collapsed due to America's capitalist bullshit.
During that time I had to struggle for food, had junkies threaten and attack my family, and nearly died shitting and puking blood due to contaminated water.
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There is no reason for me to cancel my ChatGPT subscription if I never even started a ChatGPT subscription.
Not sure how anyone can say "fuck AI" and still actually sorta use AI.
My university automatically gives all students premium subscriptions to multiple chatbots.
Meanwhile acquiring a local bus pass is case-by-case process to save money from students who do not use that service.
I don't know why they actively refuse to do the same with microsoft products.
In the end my tuition money funds 4 different chatbot services to 30,000+ students. I feel like I should apologize at this point.
(I still refuse to use any of them tho cause fuck AI)
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Or cancel sub and then use the absolute shit out of the free model to burn their runway faster
Ahh man, I never once used chatgpt cause I have a brain. I wish I could cancel it just to be one more person to cancel, but I knew it was a scam when it came out years ago.
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If you have or had a ChatGPT subscription you’re part of the problem too
If you ever bought a consumer product brought forth by capitalism you are also a part of the problem.
But that doesn’t mean individuals can’t learn and try to be better themselves.
All of humanity will have to work to better ourselves if we want a future for our species.
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