"Employees of ICE—the agency whose agents killed two people in Minneapolis in January—have used a screening tool powered by ChatGPT. The same company behind your friendly chatbot is helping the government decide who to hire for deportation raids. And it's not stopping there. OpenAI helped launch a $125m lobbying initiative, a Super Pac, to make sure no state can regulate AI."
"Every month, subscription money from users around the world flows to a company that is embedding itself in the repressive infrastructure of the Trump administration. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is a business strategy."
"Early this year, the news broke that OpenAI's president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Maga Inc, Donald Trump's biggest Super Pac. This made him Trump's largest donor of the last cycle. When Wired asked him to explain, Brockman said his donations were in service of OpenAI's mission to benefit humanity."
OpenAI is experiencing significant financial losses and market share decline while facing a major consumer boycott called QuitGPT, with over a million participants including celebrities like Mark Ruffalo and Katy Perry. The boycott was triggered by revelations that OpenAI's president Greg Brockman donated $25 million to Trump's Super Pac. Critics argue OpenAI's stated humanitarian mission contradicts its actual practices: its technology powers ICE screening tools used in deportation decisions, it launched a $125 million lobbying initiative to prevent state AI regulation, and it supports Trump's exclusive control over AI policy. The company's subscription revenue flows to support these activities, raising concerns about its alignment with repressive government infrastructure.
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