People are switching from OpenAI to Claude following Sam Altman's announcement today.
TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.
Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.
Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.
What stance do you take toward big tech companies after this?
Are you staying loyal to ChatGPT, or are you switching to Claude?
BTW, one of the users on Reddit proclaimed about Claude:
"Claude needs time to warm up to you. It's strange, but somehow that's just how it works with Claude. It's the most human-adjacent AI I've ever used." I am switching too.
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I switched before even then. ChatGPT just doesn't cut it. Even without the political stuff, I find Claude more natural, easier to work with, and with Cowork, what's to change?
This is typical politics.
You gotta tip your cap to any tech company nowadays that isn't stumbling over themselves to be as gross as possible to get money. These are cynical times.
Honestly I was already on Claude before this whole thing blew up, but the Pentagon contract situation did make me more deliberate about staying. It's not just the ethics angle, it's that Anthropic has been consistent about where they draw the line, and that consistency matters when you're building on top of a model and need to trust that the guardrails won't shift under you.
The "needs time to warm up to you" thing on Reddit is real btw, I noticed it too. It takes a few exchanges before it really gets your working style, but once it does, it's noticeably different from the others.
I switched away from OpenAI a few months ago. The company I work for, during the day, began using Claude shortly after that.
I really happy working with Claude and by extension Claude Code.
I am very concerned for humanity with the way things in the AI world seems to be heading, but if you know nothing about it and how it works, you will be left behind.
Actually... We may have already been left behind