1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2026/03/02/leaving-chatgpt-make-sure-to-do-this-before-you-cancel/

by johnbarron • 5 months ago

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andsoitis• 5 months 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.

johnbarron2• 5 months ago

So the investors would pound the same amount of money, into a platform with dwelling number of users?

Finnucane• 5 months 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.

estimator7292• 5 months ago

Dwindling, and probably, yes. For a while, anyway.

zamalek• 5 months ago

Unfortunately the US military has very deep pockets.

gigel82• 5 months 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.

jeanloolz• 5 months 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)

rjh29• 5 months ago

What do you use for code? I use Gemini CLI and it seems pretty competent and it's cheap.

radicality• 5 months 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.

tedd4u• 5 months ago

I would imagine they chose to cap the resources spend on batch processing for this export function.

trashface• 5 months 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.

Traster• 5 months ago

Bollocks. <name> (optional) <email> (optional) join the boycott! 1.5m have essentially signed an e-petition. I hate this e-pteition things.

nom• 5 months ago

They made name and email optional. You just click a button on their page.

The endpoint was hit 2.5 Million times.

Crosseye_Jack• 5 months 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"

apercu• 5 months 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.

ChrisArchitect2• 5 months 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

ChrisArchitect2• 5 months ago

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230990

robinhood• 5 months ago

This story is such a click bait. A random website makes baseless claims and everyone takes this as face value.

AuthAuth• 5 months ago

Its scary how often that happens these days. People are incapable of verifying claims due to how many layers deep things go and lazy publications can mistakenly legimatise false claims.

johnbarron2• 5 months ago

"ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal" - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

applicative• 5 months ago

I probably don't understand it but, the reports are all that it is Anthropic, not OpenAI, that is the one supplying the AI fuel for the present Iran war. (Thus the delay in the imagined military rejection of Anthropic). Meanwhile OpenAI says it has exactly the same principles and 'red lines' but is somehow implementing them differently. They seem to agree that they do not differ in any of the respects in question. The real story has to be completely different.

jimmydoe• 5 months ago

Claude has been so unusable in last few days that I moved to ChatGPT.

1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT

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