My only regret is I never had a chatgpt subscription in the first place to cancel.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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That's a win, not a regret π
Me too. Sorry guys. The only thing I could cancel is my Ollama free tier account but i don't think that's going to make much of an impact.
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I'm in postgrad study at the moment and the amount of university students that rely on ChatGPT for 80%+ of their assignment/project work has really shaken my trust in the current gen coming out of higher education.
This is after the unit lecturers have each belaboured the point that GenAI must be 'used responsibly and with care to triple-check any output is valid and understood - and that any confirmed plagiarism or hallucinated references are an 'instant zero' on assignments.
They don't care. It's easier than reading textbooks and thinking.
(All this to say - I don't think #QuitChatGPT will have much effect on those using it regularly, regardless of their morals)
I swear I don't understand college students who work so hard not to learn.
It's like they want to get as little education for their money as possible.
Because being more intelligent than before isn't the point anymore. It's to get a $50k certificate that says you can do jobs unrelated to what you studied. It's shows that you are breakable and thus likely to be a good worker.
Because they're not going to college to learn, they're going to get a degree. The prevailing mentality is "I'm paying for this so that I can go through the motions and graduate so that I'll meet the minimum qualifications for an entry level position."
It's a result of the commodification of education: treating universities like a business rather than as centers of learning. Everything's transactory.
Professors are afraid to fail students because the administration wants the best retention ratings, and cause bad reviews might mean they lose their jobs.
Oh, and because expecting college students to actually learn something is elitist, apparently...
Don't get caught forming coherent thoughts in complete sentences with proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Someone might accuse you of being petite bourgeois and get your professor fired for playing favorites...
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Unless youβre in college for STEM, every degree is just a piece of paper with very little educational value behind it. You start learning after the degree, once you get the job that you need the degree to get.
Even then
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Itβs gonna be like when cell phones got popular and suddenly no one could remember anyoneβs phone number anymore, but this time it will be that they canβt remember anything
I think my brother's has like, a 6 in it? Maybe an ampersand...?
"Was there a 'niner' in there? Were you calling from a walkie-talkie?"
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When I was in college, I did some TA work helping to run labs. This particular lab was a general chemistry lab for the health care track, nurses, doctors, etc. This girl walks up to me, deadpan, and asks "What does 'M-L' mean?" She was asking what milliliter meant. I shit you not, that has scared me about ever going to a hospital for anything more serious than a cold.
Lol yes that is worrying. She could have just been having a brainfart though.. Everyone has those sometimes.
I've been to hospital quite a bit (visiting and assisting people mostly) and the standards have been very high for nurses, doctors, technicians etc. I hope that can comfort you somewhat.
This is disheartening to hear. Why would you pay $60k-$100k in tuition alone only to waste the paid opportunity?
Itβs like buying a new Toyota Tacoma, slashing the tires, draining the radiator, and then taking it out for a spin and expecting a quality drive.
Perhaps this isn't obvious to you but higher education, while valuable, has long just been a rubber stamp.
Many grads don't work on their feild of study and many people are just trying to get the paper so they can get a job.
It's been like this for 30 years.
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Unfortunately I can't help with the acceleration. Can't cancel a subscription that never started
Break into someones house and cancel theirs.
Why not break into the CEO's house and unsubscribe them from their life?
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Can't cancel a subscription I never had.
I hate chatbots because they are an affront to personhood, language, and the very concept of meaning. You hate chatbots because some of the manufacturers donate to a political party in a failing empire.
We are allies
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Sorry. I can't do that. I can't cancel my subscription to Chatgpt. I just can't......
......because I never subscribed in the first place.
When you use ChatGPT you chat with Trump!
Cancel your subscription today!
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If you have or had a ChatGPT subscription youβre part of the problem too
If you ever bought a consumer product brought forth by capitalism you are also a part of the problem.
But that doesnβt mean individuals canβt learn and try to be better themselves.
All of humanity will have to work to better ourselves if we want a future for our species.
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It is kinda concerning how few people actually remember the 2008 Recession and what precedent the US state solidified in its response. A key feature of neoliberal politics is the extraction of public capital through state subsidies and cronyist deal-making. These companies understand that bailouts are a genuine and secure route for capital injection should they sustain a consistent loss. Y'all think it's a coincidence all this coverage of AI company losses followed their realization that there is no way for the US to build up its infrastructure to effectively challenge Chinese AI capabilities?
This is the business model, it's why they're so open and vocal about AI sucking even though they depend on its speculative value and its why they've spent so much on collecting liquidation assets in hardware and real-estate despite the obvious inability to meet the infrastructure demands.
Oh I remember 2008 quite. I lost most of my teenage years to homelessness because economies collapsed due to America's capitalist bullshit.
During that time I had to struggle for food, had junkies threaten and attack my family, and nearly died shitting and puking blood due to contaminated water.
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Can we get some citations besides an image someone posted? I did a cursory look and couldnβt substantiate any of this. The only real news is Nvidia saying their last round of investments in openAI and Anthropic would probably be their last.
Genuine question. I know itβs fun to hate on AI slop and openAI in general, but there are enough real facts, donβt feel like we need any made up ones to win folks over
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There is no reason for me to cancel my ChatGPT subscription if I never even started a ChatGPT subscription.
Not sure how anyone can say "fuck AI" and still actually sorta use AI.
My university automatically gives all students premium subscriptions to multiple chatbots.
Meanwhile acquiring a local bus pass is case-by-case process to save money from students who do not use that service.
I don't know why they actively refuse to do the same with microsoft products.
In the end my tuition money funds 4 different chatbot services to 30,000+ students. I feel like I should apologize at this point.
(I still refuse to use any of them tho cause fuck AI)
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Meanwhile I'm just surprised they had enough paying users to warrant a subscription cancelling movement.
Why would I ever even have bought a ChatGPT subscription when there were free ways to access LLMs that were just as good?
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Too late. They have contracts with the Pentagon now and have officially achieved Military Industrial Complex status. You no longer get to vote with your wallet because your tax dollars will go to them whether you like it or not. The mass surveillance tools they provide are too valuable to let them fail.
Or cancel sub and then use the absolute shit out of the free model to burn their runway faster
Hot take - I'd rather not accelerate their demise. I want it to happen after Trump is (hopefully) out.
OpenAI pre-ordered 40% of yet-to-be-manufactured DRAM, causing a global shortage making memory very expensive, new laptops/phones to be shipped with less memory, and delaying projects like the Steam Machine.
They did it with money they do not have. So unless they manage to actually become profitable - they are going to get bankrupt very hard.
And Trump will bail them out.
I'm not suggesting the next president is going to be against corporate welfare. But maybe, just maybe, OpenAI will be associated so hard with Trump that the political beef alone will make him[^1] more inclined to let OpenAI take the fall they so dearly deserve.
[^1]: Not using gender-neutral language. We've already seen this is not going to happen.
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Wait, people were paying for this shit?
Ahh man, I never once used chatgpt cause I have a brain. I wish I could cancel it just to be one more person to cancel, but I knew it was a scam when it came out years ago.
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Why the fuck would anyone have a subscription to ChatGPT in the first place?
Even if you need or want to use an LLM, there are other models out there, better ones, and designed by companies that aren't as terrible.
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