#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?

About this episode

The episode discusses the #QuitGPT campaign and its impact on big tech.

It started quietly, with a handful of posts on tech forums and Reddit explaining why and how you should uninstall and unsubscribe from ChatGPT. Now the campaign #QuitGPT has more than 4 million participants worldwide, and the numbers are still climbing. FRANCE 24 tech journalist Charlotte Lam tells us more.

People in this episode

Guest: Charlotte Lam

Topics covered

• AI boycott
• technology
• ChatGPT
• social media
• digital activism

Keywords

• QuitGPT
• AI
• ChatGPT
• uninstall
• tech forums
• Reddit
• digital activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ChatGPT, FRANCE 24

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