S. app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been rebranded under the Trump administration as the Department of War.
This data, which comes from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, represents a sizable increase compared with ChatGPT’s typical day-over-day uninstall rate of 9%, as measured over the past 30 days.
Meanwhile, U.S. downloads for OpenAI competitor Anthropic’s Claude jumped up by 37% day-over-day on Friday, February 27, and 51% as of Saturday, February 28, after the company announced that it would not partner with the U.S. defense department. Anthropic said it was not able to agree on the deal terms over concerns that AI would be used to surveil Americans and be used in fully autonomous weaponry, which AI is not yet ready to do safely.
I’m surprised so many people were paying for it. Seems like more people want less ai not more these days.
Don’t forget we are in a perception bubble here.
Yes, but of that many people are already paying and they are still burning through billions, it’s even more of a bubble than I thought. The chance of.profitability with direct to consumer is less likely.
So clearly it will be mainly corporate and enshittified versions going forward.
People want less forced AI, but most people are fine with using it whenever they want
I’m one of them
Many of us are in our own little bubble. Nearly all regular folk use AI instead of Google now.