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Disturbing reason 'everyone is deleting ChatGPT' revealed
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OpenAI, the brains behind ChatGPT, is forecast to lose $14bn in 2026, but there is a particular reason for the AI chatbot giant’s demise.
With the concurrent development of Google Gemini, Grok, and Microsoft Copilot, rivaling ChatGPT, the knowledge tool has seen its market share decline drastically to 45.3% from 69.1% in 2025, but its investors haven’t helped themselves.
Over a million people have answered calls to boycott the AI giant, under the online protest movement, aptly named QuitGPT, after it transpired that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc., aiding the controversial politician's presidential aspirations.
Why are people turning towards 'QuitGPT'?
This substantial sum of money made OpenAI Trump’s single-largest donor in the last campaign cycle. However, Brockman has since sought to allay public scrutiny, stating that his donations were merely to serve the interests of “humanity”.
Funding Trump’s presidential run aside, the U.S.’s controversial ICE has been employing a screening tool powered by ChatGPT. The contentious agency has reportedly deported approximately 328,000 people from America as of late 2025.
OpenAI and the U.S. Department of Defense
The outrage doesn’t stop there, either. Recently, OpenAI has struck a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to run its AI models on confidential military networks. As such, there has been a wide condemnation of the move, with many citing surveillance risks and data protection as particular causes of concern.
As per Sensor Tower, uninstalls of the AI phenomenon have shot up to 295% in the U.S. alone, with downloads also falling dramatically. OpenAI has also contributed towards lobbying for AI to go unregulated by every state in the United States, giving Trump and his administration ultimate control over the future implementation of the technology.
In response to these changes, many former ChatGPT users have switched to Anthropic’s AI model Claude, the company that recently rejected the demands of the Trump administration to allow the Pentagon unrestricted access to their technology, which included complete autonomy over user activity and complete oversight over surveillance.
Unlike their competitors, OpenAI agreed to these insistences, subsequently replacing Anthropic’s software (which had originally been used by the country’s federal agencies and government departments), striking a deal with the U.S. Department of War, all at Trump’s behest.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security”, announcing that any company that partakes in deals with the U.S. military is banned from business associations with Anthropic.
With ChatGPT's future in doubt, its political alignment may have to undergo a drastic rethink should it arrest its slide in opinion polls.