Euro News reports on a growing movement against ChatCGPT after its contract with the Pentagon:
An online campaign urging users to quit OpenAI's ChatGPT is gathering momentum after a high-profile standoff between AI company Anthropic and the US Department of Defence.
Known as "QuitGPT", the movement claims that more than 1.5 million people have taken action, either by cancelling subscriptions, sharing boycott messages on social media, or signing up via quitgpt.org.
Last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he "cannot in good conscience accede to the Pentagon's request" for unrestricted access to the company's AI systems.
"In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values," Amodei wrote. "Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today's technology can safely and reliably do."
Anthropic - which makes the chatbot Claude - is the last major AI firm yet to supply its technology to a new US military internal network.
The company reportedly faced a deadline from the Department of Defence to loosen ethical guardrails or risk losing a $200 million (€167 million) contract awarded last July to "prototype frontier AI capabilities that advance US national security".
In a statement published on its website, QuitGPT says: "On February 27, ChatGPT competitor Anthropic refused to give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI for mass surveillance of Americans or producing AI weapons that kill without human oversight."
QuitGPT argues that many users wrongly believe ChatGPT is the only viable AI assistant and is urging people to switch platforms. It recommends what it says are higher-privacy and open-source alternatives such as Confer, Alpine and Lumo, as well as corporate rivals including Gemini from Google and Claude from Anthropic.
(Score: 5, Funny) by BsAtHome on Wednesday March 04, @08:33AM (1 child)
Mass surveillance of anybody else is fine then? Hypocrites!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday March 04, @02:24PM
> Hypocrites!
You new here? Hypocrites they are for decades, having an entire "alliance" to spy on each other's people and then "share data" back, avoiding such annoying limitations in their Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes [wikipedia.org]
Now they just want to throw AI at it to do grunt work so the emperor can just click "delet dis person (y/n)" at leisure without much effort.
I guess Amodei couldn't argue why spying on others should not be done but at least he tried to use the Constitution as defense, which of course was just seen as throwing tantrum instead, and promptly escalated to a dick-measuring contest.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Wednesday March 04, @10:04AM (1 child)
Just saying.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by namefags_are_jerks on Wednesday March 04, @12:11PM
Colossus: The Forbin Project has a lot more potential as an analogy..
THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Barenflimski on Wednesday March 04, @11:03AM (2 children)
Who called for the cancelling of ChatGPT? The whole thing seems so odd to me it kinda smells like this could be Musk or someone similar, just to throw shade at a company he's already upset at.
What is the alternative anyhow? If the Pentagon wants AI and is about to write someone a check for some hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years+, if its not Grok, or Gemeni, or Claude, its OpenAI, no?
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday March 04, @02:26PM (1 child)
I understood it as OpenAI bad, Anthropic good. So unsub ChatGPT, sub Claude, without mentioning Claude.
(Score: 5, Funny) by ledow on Wednesday March 04, @03:40PM
I'm ahead of the game, I "unsubscribed" from all of them before they even existed.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04, @12:29PM (3 children)
Where do we meet to burn the tesl^H^H... errr openAI datacenters. Mass surveillance is only ok when a dem president does it and we can't have this. At that point we'll stop talking about it again and call everyone else crazy conspiracy theorists for noticing. What do they have to hide?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Sourcery42 on Wednesday March 04, @01:15PM (2 children)
There is no need to inject partisanship into this. The mass surveillance started when the R's were in control post 9/11. The D's had every chance to stop doing NSA PRISM thing when they've held the majority during periods of the last 25 years, but they chose not to as well. Both sides are complicit. Both sides suck, and neither one is on the side of the people.
Stop being angry with one other and start being angry with your completely dysfunctional government. We're in terrible need of reform, yet we just keep electing the same lizards, so the wrong lizard doesn't win. Stop sowing division and put the blame where it lies. You are being part of the problem.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday March 04, @02:33PM
I agree, info is power and nobody wants to limit theirs, thinking not that it can suddenly turn against very them at heartbeat.
It all starts with secrecy because [reason]. Then it gets exploited into secrecy++ because [reason*] where definitions are intentionally broad and vague and interpretation lies in other people's hands, not the original authors. In such conditions some people normalize eating babies at some point in time.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05, @11:25AM
See NOW there is no need to inject partisanship; quick! look away and stop noticing!
The problem is that the media only highlights spying during R terms. Go back before 9/11 and you had the encryption export controls and the clipper chip. Yes both of them do it, but the annoying part is one set of lizards acts like it's only the other lizard's fault.
Biden admin added the car kill-switch and blue states are the ones pushing for GPS based road taxes. They only got angry at flock due to it hurting illegals and not you. So pardon me if I don't quite buy the "everyone work together" schtick while the left are out of power.
The age verification is another bit. It's being "opposed" for hardcore porn by team blue but not so "problematic" in terms of AI services and social media. If this post had been shitting on team R it would have been moderated up. I KNOW this.. I've done it to test.
The only reform people will entertain here is going further left at the expense of other rights and issues that get swept under the rug. You label the post "troll" because it trips up the site's worldview and they get angry.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Wednesday March 04, @04:05PM
This is what happens when you pay more attention to the balance sheet than your customers...