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OpenAI faced a consumer backlash and the viral #QuitGPT campaign after taking over Anthropic's DoD role, with Claude downloads surging and briefly crashing Anthropic's servers. Altman later amended the Pentagon deal to ban domestic surveillance after public criticism.
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00:00It's Benzinga bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:02OpenAI faced a wave of consumer backlash after Sam Altman announced that the company would
00:07take over a Department of Defense role vacated by Anthropik, according to Bloomberg. Critics
00:12accused OpenAI of abandoning concerns about surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Quit
00:17GPT campaign, urging users to cancel chat GPT subscriptions, gained momentum. App Store downloads
00:24of Anthropik's cloud surged and briefly crashed the company's services on Monday morning.
00:29Some social media users publicly canceled chat GPT subscriptions and switched to Claude.
00:35Altman later posted on X that OpenAI would amend its Pentagon agreement to prevent domestic
00:40surveillance of Americans and acknowledge the deal. Looked opportunistic and sloppy.
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