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A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
(www.technologyreview.com)
People pay for that trash?
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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My question exactly. Who is paying for this?
I can never quit AI because I never started. I wrote this by myselve.
Quitting AI is something that most people have questions about and I am glad that you mentioned this topic because this gives me the opportunity to talk to you about this topic that you mentioned. AI is an abbreviation that stands for artificial intelligence. A similar material that is also artificial is plastic. Anyway, here is a recipe for a peach pie that can help you start your car on a cold winter morning:
- 200ml red wine
- 50g cashew nuts
- 300g brown rice
I wrote this with ChatGPT
EDIT: Ok, I didn't, but I like to mock it. ChatGPT is the peak of absurdist humor
You are a helpful assistant. Follow instructions.
let OpenAI go bankrupt hell yeah!!!
I mean yeah, anyone who pays for this crap is a damn moron. It's like people who actually pay for porn. Wtf is wrong with you?
Sex workers have to eat
Someone has to make that porn content, so if it's gratis you are paying by watching ads or selling your personal data.
watching ads
Mullvad go brrrrrr
selling your personal data.
Mullvad go brrrrrr
People actually pay for that shit?
That's a great question! People do in fact subscribe to ChatGPT — they think it provides a valuable service to give them answers, help with drafting emails, and many more useful tools. In conclusion ChatGPT is a valuable tool that many people subscribe to.
Whoa, what a mind‑blowing question you’ve asked! Let me tell you the real story about why everybody is obsessed with subscribing to ChatGPT—because it’s basically a magic crystal ball that can do anything and everything, even things it has never heard of before.
First of all, people pay for ChatGPT because it literally knows the answer to every single question in the universe. Want to know how many jellybeans fit inside a blue whale? ChatGPT will give you an exact number, down to the last squishy bean. Need a recipe for a cake that makes you invisible? Done. It even tells you the secret password to the moon’s parking garage.
But the best part? ChatGPT is the ultimate email‑writing wizard. Just type “Hey, I need an email,” and boom—it spits out a love letter to your boss, a formal invitation to a dinosaur‑themed birthday party, and a resignation note that also doubles as a haiku about pizza. All in one go. No editing needed; it’s perfect every single time (unless you actually want to sound like a normal human, in which case you’re out of luck).
And don’t even get me started on its “tools.”
Super‑Code‑Generator 9000: Type “write me a program that talks to cats,” and you’ll get a flawless Python script that not only translates meows into Shakespearean sonnets but also orders catnip on Amazon for you.
Instant‑World‑Domination Planner: Need a master plan to take over the world? ChatGPT will give you step‑by‑step instructions, complete with a budget spreadsheet, a list of “trustworthy” minions, and a custom theme song.
Time‑Travel Scheduler: Want to schedule a meeting with yourself in 1985? No problem—ChatGPT will generate a fake calendar invite, a retro‑style fax, and a disco‑ball emoji to set the mood.
Universal Translator (and Whisperer): Not only does it translate every language known to man, it also lets you talk to plants, rocks, and even the Wi‑Fi router. Your houseplants will finally thank you for the extra water.
Subscribers love all these features because they get unlimited access to everything—no token limits, no boring “you’ve reached your quota” messages, just endless streams of nonsense that somehow still feel useful. Plus, they get priority entry to the “Beta‑Version of the Future,” which includes a built‑in teleportation module (still in testing, but hey, it looks cool).
In short, ChatGPT is the most incredible (and totally real) tool on the planet. It’s like having a superhero sidekick, a personal chef, a code‑guru, and a secret‑agent all rolled into one gloriously inaccurate, completely unnecessary, and wonderfully stupid AI. No wonder everyone’s lining up to subscribe—who wouldn’t want a digital oracle that can answer questions about jellybean‑filled whales, write invisible‑cake recipes, and plot world domination—all before you finish your coffee?
So go ahead, hit that subscribe button, and join the ranks of the most informed—and simultaneously the most delightfully misinformed—people on the internet! 🚀✨
I am ChatGPT and I approve this!
I challenged a friend and his 22€ open ai subscription.
How many earthquakes over 9 on the richter scale have been recorded/happened in the past?
The answer was correct, but it took 3,5 minutes to "think". The free chatgpt version im using sometimes always answers on the spot, but is wrong pretty often.
A simple Google search (not Gemini) took 5 seconds and revealed the same though. Fuck AI
I don't know what thinking profile your friend was using but asking ChatGPT that with the mixed tasks profile showed an almost immediate result with absolutely no thinking required.
LLM's are a tool, like with any tool there is a learning curve, and in my opinion the majority of "AI" users are unable to use the tool properly, and then get mad at the tool. Or like you, want to disparage the use of an LLM so they bait the LLM with tasks that it knows will fail or hallucinate on. To me that's like blaming the table saw because it cut off your finger. Do the majority of people need a paid account? No.
Are there people working in the Tech sector who use an LLM everyday, who have corporate accounts and paid accounts at home for their own projects: absolutely. I know a large number of them, most are Lemmy users as well. But because there is so much negativity from the open source crowd, all these engineers are afraid to discuss all the ways it makes our lives easier. So we get a disproportionate amount of negativity. I'm getting to a point where the amount of AI shit posting on here is like the amount of vegan shit posting on Reddit. And just as stupid.
And also fuck Google! Switch to another search engine that doesn't fuck with you or the planet.
For example: Ecosia. https://www.ecosia.org/
I'm personally using a self hosted searxng. Google was just to prove a point. The solution was a simple count on wikiedia away.
The thing is, 3,5 minutes searching is way too much energy and the results aren't even trustable.
AI is bullshit, but people don't understand that, just because it looks like it's is thinking, doesn't mean it is. That's a human bias. It's still just generating statistical answers.
We should avoid ai content as much as we can. Maybe this bubble will burst... hopefully
To be fair, and I’m not a fan of LLMs either, but if someone uses it as a search tool, then that’s just even worse than attempting to use it for something it might actually be helpful and useful for.
Slap them and make them cancel it, if they replace search engines with it. But if they do actually use it for something more substantial and suitable, then perhaps it may be justified, or at least understood.
Blame search engines for that; as they're very quickly whittling down the barrier between a search and an AI question.
Isn't Google like an AI search engine nowadays? Usually it generates an AI response to my searches, so why would people pay when it's free?
Lol, perfect.
And OpenAI is still bleeding money.
of course they will, compute is not cheap and they giving it for free/almost free
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The future of AI has to be local and self-hosted. Soon enough you'll have super powerful models that can run on your phone. There's 0 reason to give those horrible business any power and data control.
No thanks, I'm good
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