The historian Rutger Bregman argues that consumers should boycott OpenAI’s ChatGPT after the company’s deal with the Pentagon.
“A lot of people don’t know that their friendly chatbot, ChatGPT, has embedded itself into the authoritarian infrastructure of the Trump administration,” Bregman tells Helen Pidd.
He has joined the QuitGPT group, which is demanding OpenAI stop all donations to Trump and for the company to “refuse to allow AI for mass surveillance of Americans or lethal autonomous weapons”.
“With QuitGPT, we have an extraordinary historic opportunity,” Bregman says. “An actually effective consumer boycott that may take a company down and that will send a signal to all of Silicon Valley, to boardrooms everywhere: you could be next.”
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