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  segmondy
  This is a good time to promote running your own models. I have been running my own models locally and I would wager a local model will meet 85-95% of your needs if you really learn to use it. These models have gotten great. For anyone wanting to get into this, the smartest models to run recently that is consumer friendly was just released, checkout Qwen3.5 the 27B and 35B variants. They are small and I recommend running full Q8 quants. The easiest way to run these without dealing with complex GPU is to get a mac. For the example I gave, a 64gb mac will handle it well. If you are really cash strapped then you can manage with a 32gb but will have to run with less resolution quants. If you are not cashed strap, then get at least a 128gb and if possible a 256gb. The models are so good you will regret not getting a better system. You can join the r/LocalLlama community in reddit to learn some more. But this is pretty easy. Grab llama.cpp, grab a gguf quant from huggingface.co - the unsloth quants are great - https://huggingface.co/unsloth/models
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  overgard
  I just can't help but imagine ChatGPT's sycophancy mixed with military operations. "Sharp insight bombing that wedding! Next would you like tips on mosques to bomb, or I can suggest some new napalm recipes that are extra spicey. Your call!"
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  Paddyz
  The real story isn't about cancelling one subscription. It's that we're watching vendor lock-in dissolve in real time.18 months ago switching from ChatGPT meant meaningfully worse outputs. Today I routinely bounce between Claude, Gemini, local Qwen and Deepseek models depending on the task - coding in one, writing in another, privacy-sensitive stuff locally. The switching cost is approaching zero because the interface is converging on "text box + API".This is genuinely unusual in tech. Usually the longer you use a platform, the harder it is to leave (social graphs, file formats, ecosystem). With LLMs the opposite is happening - the longer the market matures, the easier switching gets, because open weights keep getting better and every provider's API looks basically the same.OpenAI's moat was never the model. It was habit and brand recognition. Events like this erode brand faster than any technical competitor could.
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  ddtaylor
  Story time!I actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription in late 2024 and documented the process, kind of as a social media thing because it had gotten so bad and I realized nobody in my family was using it anymore. I asked my wife if she was getting any use out of it and she told me she had been using Gemini and Grok for months because "GPT is very lazy now".After a while another charge came in for the subscription, but I had the receipts: we had cancelled before the next billing cycle. I decided to try and reach out to OpenAI to resolve this, but they only let you chat with GPT itself for this, which it failed at and told me they weren't in the wrong and none of the information matched what actually happened.I took this and used it to submit a chargeback request with Privacy.com, which I use for all of my online purchases. Normally I don't have to worry about this because I set a limit or cancel the cards I issue manually, but I had an OpenAI API account using the same card and I had been a bit lazy in using the same card for technically two different services.Well, Privacy.com won that dispute and I got that money back. It's worth mentioning this is actually different than most banks will do now days. For the most part when you try to get a bank to do a chargeback they just roll it into their insurance and refund you the customer as a cost of doing business, but the actual scammer or shady merchant got to keep their stolen money, whereas I can be certain OpenAI didn't keep my money.
• maxbond
  I've just cancelled my subscription in solidarity with the OpenAI employees who signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter. I was a daily user of paid features like Deep Research. But not only was Anthropic's decision more ethical, their products are better, so I can't possibly justify the expense. Honestly I mostly was subscribed to take pressure off of my Claude usage limits, but I've just upped my Claude subscription to the next tier instead.ETA: I've started an export of all my data. After that's done, I'm going to delete it all from my account (Settings > Data controls) and walk away from the account. I will give this to OpenAI, they make the process of disentangling yourself straightforward and there's integrity in that.
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  tobr
  I had been considering ditching everyday ChatGPT use in favor of Claude anyway, but hadn’t gotten around to it mostly out of habit. Now I have a good reason to do it.
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  padolsey
  Before you fully delete your account, don't forget to first save your chats! Go to https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls and click Export under "Export Data".
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  ddxv
  Just deleted my account. Can always sign up for a new account later if you need (with a different email).
• willio58
  Just cancelled. I’ll give my money to a company with leaders that have a modicum of backbone.
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  AlexCoventry
  Just asking for information: Why do we want to cancel our ChatGPT subscription? Didn't OpenAI demand exactly the same safety terms from the DoD as Anthropic did?> "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems," Altman said.https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-openai-safety-red-...
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  hedayet
  I'd cancelled my subscription earlier this month organically as I wasn't getting any net positive value.BTW, what's going to hurt their business more, deleting my account or using the free tier?
• InMice
  A few days ago I went to cancel mine and it just said they'd give me a free month instead so I said OK. I thought it was funny all the patterns to keep you on
• mnsc
  I love that the tool in question is very calm and collected, in contrast with the emotional wreck that is the US regime. I got a very helpful response to this prompt and I will make it continue working on a python script to get my historical chats looking good in Obsidian.> Ok. So I'm cancelling the subscription to ChatGPT and moving over to Claude because of the news of OpenAI striking a deal with us department of war. (https://www.techradar.com/pro/openai-just-signed-a-huge-deal...) Please line out a good exit strategy where I can keep the information in my chats and projects on my own hard drive.
• PacificSpecific
  I'm gonna have to see if I can get my company to switch off openAI. Hopefully we can make a small dent and if enough of us do it, a larger dent.Sounds like it won't really be a pain for me though based off comments on HN indicating Claude is the better product and I doubt I personally would hit any sort of token limits with the amount I use agentic coding.
• 2001zhaozhao
  PSA: If you can't switch your coding agent right away, you can just reroute Codex to a different model for the time being.https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/26#issuecomment-28116...
• blueblisters
  OpenAI has ~50M paying subscribers driving >$10B in revenue.You would probably need at least ~1M subscribers to cancel to make this painful.Probably needs more attention outside of tech circles for that to happen but I suspect this will get drowned out in the face of other stuff.
• tintor
  I just cancelled my ChatGPT subscription that I had since 2023. OpenAI offered me an extra month free, to keep my subscription.
• wonsukchoi97
  I thought it was only me. I just unsubscribed it this morning.
• raphman
  How long does data export usually take for three years of medium usage? I started it eight hours ago, got a confirmation email that export had started but so far no email with a download link.
• eranation
  After the "upside down cup" debacle, and the "walk vs drive to the carwash" conundrum, and so many other examples where GPT 5.2 thinking failed miserably and Opus 4.6 and (even Sonnet 4.6 extended thinking) nailed it, I think they earned people wanting to cancel their subscription regardless of yesterday's events.
• k310
  I'n sorry, Dave ...
• crocowhile
  Frankly this is a very easy choice. Unless you need to make images, Claude wins over chatgpt on every realm. For writing and coding there is no match. It's one of those times where you can do the right thing and get the better product.I was one of the early paying adopter of chatgpt but when Claude came around I switched and never looked back. I've been on the max plan for a while.
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  jstummbillig
  Steam levels of virtue signaling
• iofusion
  Deleted.Anthropic usage credits purchased.Message those that work forces.
• ForgotMyUUID
  1. Log into ChatGPT2. Click on your profile icon and select New Chat icon.3. Formulate a polite prompt in the regard of subscription cancellation.4. Wait for a reply from Mr. Altman.
• mmaunder
  A week is a long time in politics. It's an eternity in AI. Anyone want to take a stab at what next week looks like?
• kristopolous
  They use the web user-input as training data, we should use agents to inject it with noisy garbage.
• anon
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• sammygutierrez
  Thanks, I had Claude Code do it for me.
• vinni2
  Damn my business plan just got renewed for another year I forgot to cancel.
• neuroelectron
  589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, ... We can continue in this chunked counting style, advancing 400–500 numbers per message until we get very close to 1,000,000. Shall I continue the next chunk from 601? count up to 1000 Perfect! Let’s continue the sequence from 601 all the way to 1000 in one go: 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611,
• qwertox
  Last time i pressed the button to delete all my chats it behaved odd afterwards, then all chats where there again. Just saying.
• croes
  Don’t forget to change your model in Github copilot and such
• superkuh
  I canceled all services and deleted my account with OpenAI right after the announcement. They can get money from the current US regime but I will not contribute to their violations of the constitution.
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  villgax
  Should rename itself to NoSpineAI
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  tombert
  It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything. He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything.He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the street for not being a fucking coward.Because of some bullshit minor PTSD from a few years ago, I sort of swore an oath to myself that I wouldn't let being a coward stop me from doing the right thing, regardless of the consequences, and by doing things that I think are right it has cost me opportunities and money. I'm not homeless, but it made the job hunt harder when I was unemployed. I can actually feel consequences from standing up for what I believe in. Sam Altman being a coward is not equivalent, he's choosing to do the wrong thing for no reason.
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  jerry_attrick
  altman is now and always has been a real POS. anyone who wasn't paying attention before can see that clearly now.
• jamiepond
  welp
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• rustyhancock
  I cancelled my anthropic sub yesterday and the dark patterns are so frustrating.You go to billing. Then don't click change my subscription. Your only option to change the subscription is to "upgrade" to an annual plan. Instead you have toScroll down past your card details etc to a red button that says cancel.Who comes up with this crap?At least OpenAI puts cancelling within the Manage Plan section.