US EditionChatGPT App Uninstalls Surge 295% in the US After Pentagon Deal, Claude Observes a Boom
OpenAI defends Pentagon deal citing legal and technical safeguards amid employee protests and rival Anthropic's blacklisting as a supply chain risk by the Department of War.
- On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal to deploy models on classified Department of War networks and defended the "definitely rushed" decision in an AMA on social platform X.
- Anthropic refused Pentagon requests to alter Claude for spying or autonomous weapons use, and the administration labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk while President Donald Trump ordered the military to stop using its technology.
- The company described contractual protections and technical measures, including classifiers and fine-tuning, to block disallowed prompts and barred use in mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, and high-stakes decisions.
- Calls to boycott OpenAI have grown, with QuitGPT claiming over 1.5 million people stopped using ChatGPT, while rival Claude briefly overtook ChatGPT in app downloads.
- The contract is classified, so OpenAI said it could not publish the full agreement, but a six‑month phase‑in was ordered for OpenAI’s and Elon Musk’s xAI models, complicating immediate deployment.
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ChatGPT app uninstalls surge 295% in the US after Pentagon deal, Claude observes a boom
After OpenAI agreed to follow the DoD laws, users are uninstalling the ChatGPT app at a higher rate. According to the recent report, this ChatGPT fallout has surged to 295 per cent in the US. IT has been observed that users are now switching to Anthropic Cluade, which held its ground and said no to Pentagon.
OpenAI's boss, Sam Altman, announced on Monday a series of changes in the recent agreement between his company and the US Department of Defense regarding access to his artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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