Users boycott ChatGPT after OpenAI signs Department of War deal
Source: The Independent
Monday 02 March 2026 05:53 EST
A growing number of ChatGPT users are switching to other AI chatbots after OpenAI signed a deal with the US Department of War.
The deal with the Pentagon, announced on Friday, comes after the Trump administration sought to terminate a contract with Anthropic after the AI startup raised concerns about its products being used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said its company “cannot in good conscience accede to [the department’s] request”, adding that the government was threatening to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk” – a label reserved for US adversaries that has never been applied to a US company.
“The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution,” President Donald Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social on Friday. Anthropic’s chatbot Claude has since jumped to the top of Apple’s charts for free apps, overtaking OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/cancel-chatgpt-ai-war-claude-anthropic-b2930007.html
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