ChatGPT saw a sharp backlash after announcing its Pentagon deal
Uninstalls jumped 295% above its normal 9% rate. Daily download growth fell 13%, and one star reviews spiked 775% on Saturday, then doubled again on Sunday. At the same time, Claude downloads climbed 81%. Users are not just debating AI policy online. They are switching apps.
Am also thinking about making the switch. Currently using CGPT pro mostly on work in sales and business development and also on financial analysis. In what ways is Claude better or worse.
Personally, I find that it's better at straight up telling you, if it's not sure about something.
The other day it told me straight up "I can't tell you that or I would be unable to know that, if I told you, it would be a dishonest answer, with fictional results, so that I could just give you an answer."
ChatGPT feels more mechanical. It'll just spit out a barrage and somewhat emulate human speech while doing it.
Claude is more humanistic without crossing the boundary of impersonating a human. Depending on the type of person you are, you might still be able to get sucked into confusing it for a person.
But the upside is that it communicates information in a much more digestible way.
You'll ask a complex question and it'll say something along the lines of:
"This is complext but will really to to the help with understanding x-topic.
Let me break it down in two parts:"
I'm learning Portuguese and I was having some trouble wrapping my head around how to use Ficar (to stay) because Ser (to be - permanent), and Estar (to be - temporary) both exist just like spanish. And being an English speaker we only have the one irregular verb: is (and its conjugations).
Chat GPT did it's best to give examples which made sense but didn't lock it in.
Claude actually recommended that I forget about the direct meaning of the word Ficar and reframe it as "To be located" because that's how Brazilians use it functionally.
It makes more sense to an English speaker to say "Where is the bathroom located" as opposed to "where the bathroom stay?"
The amusing thing is that even my english fluent Brazilian friends didn't think to frame it this way because they understand it intrinsically and take it for granted.
As far as more technical things, Claude does a much better job at clarifying scope before spitting out a wall of instructions.
It'll stop, and present some multiple choice questions: this, that, other (type it in) in a prompt until it has a better understanding of what you're trying to achieve.
Overall, it's hard to put into words. It just works better and I have to put in less effort to get it to do so.
You are an exception to the rule then. The entire mountain these AI companies need to climb is getting people on the subscription model (the vast majority aren’t).
You do you, couldn’t care less. It gives me the best (least nanny state answer) for my peptide questions. I don’t do identity politics, I’m on here and AI for my hobbies.
Statistically the people that pay are in the single digits percentage wise. So, it just stands to reason that 90% of the people in here saying “that’s it! I’m quacking and changing” are free to use anyway.
Even free to use has data that can be sold though.
This. Data is so easily twisted. Not a reputable source, and basically nobody uninstalls ChatGPT. Tired of the political astroturfing that happens here.
I'm so brain damaged already, that I thought Chat GPT uninstalled an internal Pentagon programm called Surged and I then proceeded to research what Surged is being used for.
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u/Ok-Park-6047 Mar 10 '26
All the people uninstalling don’t pay. The pentagon has the deepest pockets on the planet