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ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal
(techcrunch.com)
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
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
a large % change is always relevant no matter the company size. that’s the whole point
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've switched to Mistral. It's not quite on the same level of performance but certainly worth not being on a American dubious setup.
Deepseek. Take my data Xi. Please liberate us from our pedophilic ruling class. Please bring us high speed rail. Amen.
I convinced two friends to cancel their monthly sub. I guess that's something.
Every little bit counts
Copilot says these are ethical alternatives 
copilot isnt even recommending himself. he knows he sucks 😔
It's dangerous when we start calling it a he/she.
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 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'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
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.
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!
Anthropic have at least one active 2 years deal with DoD that expires ~2027 https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-of-defense-to-advance-responsible-ai-in-defense-operations
How are they tracking uninstalls?
Probably play store / app store metrics
I had no idea that data was public
Its almost always public when it comes to google.
I believe third party analytic tools and other forms of research help news agencies report this kinda stuff, but also for the likes of google they could just probably buy the data from them
I did it too and for that reason (dod contract)
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(I seem to have lost the ability to embed gifs.)
But the fewer people who use it the less money they'll lose
i don't have app, but may install to prop the uninstall numbers
Ehhh. If they weren’t paying customers then it’ll certainly help their burn rate.
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