"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow (windowscentral.com)
140 points by AndrewKemendo 34 days ago | 43 comments



avaer 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

> There are no virtuous participants in the artificial intelligence race

A bit of an insulting way to start the article.

Plenty of researchers and smaller companies would disagree, but they won't get articles written about them because they're not embroiled in DOW killbot drama.

We might not be in this situation if all of this money was given to them instead.

ssl-3 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

"DOW" here is an acronym for Department of War, and really should be fully capitalized in the title.
siva7 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Says windowscentral.com... People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic nor do they care about this dispute. What normal poeple might have heard is probably more something along the lines of Anthropic and supply-chain-risk and unpatriotic...
3rodents 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

The top post on Reddit is about it, it has escaped the nerdsphere.
hugo 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Wait till the first outage hits and everyone discovers their "ethical AI choice" has the same SLA as the unethical one.
mi_lk 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

> People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic

"Claude by Anthropic" is currently #2 Top Free App in US App Store

firefoxd 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

One thing to take into account, this will now be a large source of revenue for them. You thought you would get away with the free tier, but now as a tax payer, we are all funding it.
pebble32 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

If anything, this just means the free tier is now more likely to stick around—gov contracts need broad adoption to justify spending, and free users are their dataset.
cpeterso 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

And they can get “too build to fail” bailouts from the US government after they are dependent on ChatGPT.
copper58 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

OpenAI is already profitable though. The government spending here just accelerates that. They're not going to need bailouts like banks or automakers did.
jedberg 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

It’s DoD. It’s still not officially changed. But if you insist on using the nickname it should be DoW.
hbarka 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Dario Amodei direct interview today on CBS News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU



*DoD

Headline makes it sound like Dow Chemical/Jones.

nialv7 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

i don't have an openai subscription, but i still want to participate
andy_ppp 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

I know this is very picky but I find the font choices of Claude quite distracting and difficult to read. I might try Gemini but the Trump admin would probably force Google to sell YouTube to Larry Ellison so they will capitulate. Are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?
delecti 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

It seems like Claude's settings let you pick the system font. Is there a reason to not change your system font to something you don't find distracting? It seems like it would have knock-on benefits by making every application less distracting.

There's a Claude settings option to use the system font instead.

> are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?

Yup, Check out Openrouter providers for your particular chinese frontier model/ open weights model in general and you could find the location of all providers who host that model and where they are hosted (US/EU countries etc.) as well.

You can also change Claude font as others are mentioning.

mickle00 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Great to see this going mainstream
journal 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

I refuse to use anything but OpenAI API.

I can't tell if this is satire but if not, you're only holding yourself back. It's far from the leading model family for a while now for almost any workload.
Simulacra 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

This article makes no sense. ChatGPT is a search engine and knowledge base with an anthropomorphic front end. It's Google with human characteristics. I think, IMHO, people take AI way too seriously and see in it a boogeyman to conquer.
procone 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

It is certainly not a "search engine". Perhaps you should do some reading on how LLMs function.
tgrant 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

This is just DARPA and DoD contracts all over again. Oracle, IBM, Microsoft all took the same money. Why expect different now?
ryandvm 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Find a smarter dog park
RalfWausE 34 days ago | flag as AI [–]

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