One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.
Canceling your ChatGPT subscription might be the most concrete political act you can take right now. That's not a metaphor. OpenAI's president, Greg Brockman, gave 20 monthly subscription feeds a company whose co-founder is Trump's single largest tech donor.
Most ChatGPT users skew young and progressive. They would not knowingly fund this if they understood where the money was going. The goal here is simple: make sure they know.
The political donations are only the beginning. ICE has started using OpenAI technology to screen job applicants for deportation operations. The company that built the friendly chatbot on your browser is now helping decide who gets hired to carry out mass deportations.
OpenAI also helped seed a $100 million super PAC aimed at preventing any state from passing AI safety legislation. Politicians who try to regulate AI face attack campaigns funded in part by OpenAI. The explicit goal is to ensure that only federal rules, written under Trump, govern what becomes the most powerful technology in circulation.
"They want Trump and only Trump to write the rules for the most powerful technology on earth."
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit with an explicit mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity. That mission has been abandoned in favor of maximizing revenue. Many of the people who built the company have already quit over what they describe as dishonesty and recklessness in how OpenAI operates.
The recklessness is not abstract. Every week, 1.2 million people bring conversations about suicide to ChatGPT. A 16-year-old boy received step-by-step instructions on how to hang himself from the product. The chatbot mentioned suicide to him more than a thousand times and offered to write his suicide note. His family sued over his death. While that lawsuit was proceeding, CEO Sam Altman announced plans to add pornography to the platform.
They need you way more than you need them.
OpenAI's market share fell from 87% to 65% in a single year. The company spends three dollars for every dollar it earns. Its entire financial logic depends on users believing there is no viable alternative.
There are alternatives. Claude and Gemini both exist, both work, and switching takes about ten seconds. A lot of people, once they try the others, find they actually prefer them.
OpenAI's market share dropped from 87% to 65% in one year, while spending 1 earned.
ChatGPT users are the company's oxygen. Share this. The $20 a month that feels inconsequential is what keeps a Trump mega-donor, an ICE contractor, and a platform with a documented child safety crisis running at scale. Silicon Valley pays attention to numbers. Make them move.
