{"id":22185,"date":"2026-03-04T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:37:21","slug":"quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a historian, I\u2019ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley<\/p>\n

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn<\/a> this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it \u201cscrewed up<\/a>\u201d an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.<\/p>\n

A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT<\/a> has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call. Mark Ruffalo <\/a>and Katy Perry<\/a> have thrown their weight behind it. It is one of the most significant consumer boycotts in recent memory, and I believe it\u2019s time for Europeans to join.<\/p>\n

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\nAs a historian, I\u2019ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley
\nOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it \u201cscrewed up\u201d an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.
\nA grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call. Mark Ruffalo and Katy Perry have thrown their weight behind it. It is one of the most significant consumer boycotts in recent memory, and I believe it\u2019s time for Europeans to join. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a historian, I\u2019ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it \u201cscrewed up\u201d an element …<\/p>\n

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