{"id":68009,"date":"2026-03-04T02:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:58:54","slug":"quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a historian, I\u2019ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/openai-projections-imply-losses-tripling-to-14-billion-in-2026?im_ref=01o37YxX%3AxyZWhBUVIwuzVvXUku2FMXFn1S4xM0&amp;sharedid=pcgamer.com&amp;irpid=10078&amp;utm_term=pcgamer.com&amp;irgwc=1&amp;afsrc=1&amp;utm_source=affiliate&amp;utm_medium=cpa&amp;utm_campaign=10078-Skimbit+Ltd.\">to lose $14bn<\/a> this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/ai-platforms-assistants\/sam-altman-admits-openai-screwed-up-the-writing-quality-on-chatgpt-5-2-and-promises-future-versions-wont-neglect-it\">screwed up<\/a>\u201d an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.<\/p>\n<p>A grassroots boycott called <a href=\"https:\/\/quitgpt.org\/\">QuitGPT<\/a> has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUgfxjXiaYl\/?img_index=1\">Mark Ruffalo <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cybernewscom\/posts\/pop-singer-katy-perry-has-announced-she-is-subscribing-to-claude-as-calls-to-can\/1516928750442811\/\">Katy Perry<\/a> have thrown their weight behind it. It is one of the most significant consumer boycotts in recent memory, and I believe it\u2019s time for Europeans to join.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/04\/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a historian, I\u2019ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it \u201cscrewed up\u201d an element &#8230; <a title=\"Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}