A fast-growing boycott campaign is calling on users to cancel their subscriptions to ChatGPT and other OpenAI products because of its ties to President Donald Trump and federal immigration enforcement.
So far, about 700,000 people have joined the campaign, according to its website.
The campaign began in early February to “send a clear signal to ICE enablers that their actions will not go unpunished” and to “make CEOs think twice before they get in bed with Trump.”
The campaign’s supporters argue that OpenAI’s leadership betrayed its public image as a socially responsible innovator by deepening its ties with the Trump administration and its controversial immigration enforcement practices.
Those involved with the boycott are betting that persuading enough people to cancel their subscriptions will successfully push the company into rethinking its relationship with the president. Actor Mark Ruffalo recently emerged as the most prominent celebrity backing the effort. He shared QuitGPT’s materials with his followers on social media. He warned that “ChatGPT’s president is Trump’s biggest donor” and said “their tech powers ICE.”
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The other issue for the campaign is that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses the company’s GPT-4 technology as an “AI-Assisted Resume Screening Tool” to assess ICE candidates, according to FedScoop.
Critics point out that this hiring system is in development along with other AI projects at ICE. They claim it is part of a larger pattern of automation inside an agency that has taken fire for alleged abuses and for an AI screening glitch that sent undertrained recruits into the field.
The campaign believes this strategy will work because while ChatGPT “is the biggest chatbot in the world,” its advantage “is fragile,” its website notes.
ChatGPT has been losing market share. Their creator OpenAI is losing 3x more than they earn. ChatGPT users skew young and progressive, and many don't know about alternatives. We can push OpenAI over the edge. If we make an example of ChatGPT, we can send a clear signal to ICE enablers that their actions will not go unpunished. Let's make CEOs think twice before they get in bed with Trump.
The organizers suggest that users switch to other artificial intelligence services, including Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
