Deleted my account this morning. The Open AI-Pentagon deal is why.

I've been a paying ChatGPT user since GPT-4 dropped. I like the tools. I'm not an AI doomer, and I have zero affiliation with Anthropic. But I watched what happened this week and I'm done. Friday morning, Sam Altman goes on CNBC and says he shares Anthropic's red lines. His employees sign a solidarity letter. He tells his staff OpenAI is working to "deescalate." Friday night, just a few hours later, Altman announces OpenAI signed a deal to replace Anthropic on the Pentagon's classified networks. The Pentagon agreed to put the surveillance and autonomous weapons guardrails in OpenAI's contract. The same guardrails they just blacklisted Anthropic for requesting. Altman then "graciously" suggested the Pentagon extend these terms to all AI companies. Which is a nice thing to say after you've already pilfered your competitor's contract. I'm not naive. I understand the cold logic. But there's a word for publicly declaring solidarity with someone's position in the morning and then taking their job by nightfall. And "deescalation" isn't it. If the lesson here is "hold the line on your values and we will destroy your business and hand everything to whoever steps over you", and the industry response is to race each other to be the one doing the stepping over, then something has gone badly wrong. Cancelled Pro. Deleted the account. I'm not going to support whatever OpenAI is becoming.