12/03/2026
This is a personal matter and in my opinion of great importance for all of us, which is why I shortly summarized the article from the Guardian for you in the following.
All information and every quote are taken from the article which I have linked in my bio and highly recommend reading!
QuitGPT is a boycott movement that has spreaded rapidly across the US and beyond in the past weeks.
But what exactly is going on:
Early this year information was published stating that Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI, has donated 25 million USD to the MAGA Inc. which made him to Trumps biggest donor of the last election cycle. According to Brockman the donations were “in service of OpenAI`s mission to benefit humanity”. To clarify that’s not what is happening with the money but instead initiatives like ICE were indirectly supported through your ChatGPT subscription.
Furthermore “OpenAI helped launch a 125m USD lobbying initiative to make sure no state can regulate AI” and “is attacking any politician who tries to pass safety laws”. They try to achieve rights which in worst case could result in mass surveillance, weapon systems and the systematically abuse of our private data and want Trump to be the only one “who is able to write rules for this most powerful technology”.
Now it’s getting even scarier after the Trump administration demanded unrestricted access from AI companies for the Pentagon, including technology for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. ChatGPTs main competitor Anthropic, standing behind the Claude AI, refused and you can probably already guess by now how OpenAI reacted. They took their chance, dumped their morals and took Anthropic`s place by quietly signing the deal with the Pentagon. Therefore, your Chats and every information you have shared with ChatGPT could now be already in possession of the Trump administration.
Additionally, since then, Trump has ordered every federal agency to stop using any of Anthropic`s technologies and declared the company a “supply chain risk to national security”.
“Basically, a corporate death sentence” for having morals, standing by company’s policies and refusing to hand out data and technology to an administration which is totally unpredictable in their actions.
Why we can actually change something by cancelling our subscription plans:
OpenAI`s investors are carefully watching subscription numbers which have already significantly dropped through the movement and OpenAI has already started running ads, something they have always stated as a last resort, which proves their desperation to bring in revenue.
They are in a very vulnerable spot and we as users got total control over their revenue. For us it is so easy to boycott and just switch to a competitor.
Your behaviour can change something about how our data is being processed and in which kind of world we live in!
So please be mindful about what you are indirectly supporting with your subscriptions, cancel and delete ChatGPT and switch to a competitor.
In which world do YOU want to live in?
Summary of the article: Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism” by Rutger Bregman in the Guardian, Wed. 4 Mar. 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
