For Stephen, who was already feuding with other chatbots, learning about Brockman’s donation was the last straw. “This is really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” he says. When he canceled his chatbot subscription, a survey asked what Openey could do to keep his membership. “Don’t support a fascist regime,” he wrote.
QuitGupt is one of the latest silos in a growing movement of activists and disaffected users to cancel their memberships. In just the past few weeks, users have flooded Reddit with stories of chatbot abandonment. Many lamented the performance of the GPT 5.2, the latest model. Others shared memes mocking the chatbot’s sycophancy. some made a plan”Mass cancellation party” In San Francisco, there was a sarcastic nod GPT-4O funeral That an Openei employee used to swim, poking fun at customers who are mourning the model’s impending retirement. Still, others see a deeper entanglement between Opani and the Trump administration.
Openei did not respond to a request for comment.
By December 2025, According to ChatGipt, there were about 900 million weekly active users Information. While it’s unclear how many users have joined the boycott, QuitGPT is gaining attention. A recent one Instagram post The campaign has over 36 million views and 1.3 million likes. And organizers say more than 17,000 people have signed up on the campaign’s website, which asks people if they’ve canceled their membership, pledged to stop using ChatGPT, or shared the campaign on social media.
“There are a lot of examples of failed campaigns like this, but we’ve seen a lot of effectiveness,” says Dana Fisher, an economist at American University. A wave of canceled subscriptions rarely affects a company’s behavior, he says, unless it reaches a critical mass. “The place where there is a pressure point that could work is where in consumer behavior it is if enough people use their… money to express their political opinions.”
MIT Technology Review Reached three Employees at Openei, none of whom said they were aware of the campaign.
Dozens of left-leaning teens and twenties from across America came together in late January to organize Quit GPT. They range from pro-democracy activists and climate activists to techies and self-proclaimed cyberlibertarians, many of them grassroots veterans. He was impressed by one Viral video Posted by Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at New York University and its host Professor G. Pod. The best way to stop the snow, he argued, was to convince people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. He said denting OpenAI’s subscriber base could cause the stock market to slide and threaten an economic downturn that would sway Trump.