{"id":532972,"date":"2026-03-11T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:28:10","slug":"should-we-be-boycotting-chatgpt-podcast-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532972\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be boycotting ChatGPT? \u2013 podcast | Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The historian Rutger Bregman argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/04\/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consumers should boycott OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/04\/sam-altman-openai-pentagon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">company\u2019s deal with the Pentagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know that their friendly chatbot, ChatGPT, has embedded itself into the authoritarian infrastructure of the Trump administration,\u201d Bregman tells Helen Pidd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He has joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/quitgpt.org\/#\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">QuitGPT<\/a> group, which is demanding OpenAI stop all donations to Trump and for the company to \u201crefuse to allow AI for mass surveillance of Americans or lethal autonomous weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWith QuitGPT, we have an extraordinary historic opportunity,\u201d Bregman says. \u201cAn actually effective consumer boycott that may take a company down and that will send a signal to all of Silicon Valley, to boardrooms everywhere: you could be next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Support the Guardian today: <a href=\"http:\/\/theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rutger Bregman at his offices in New York.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5243.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.22067518596225\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Natalie Keyssar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historian Rutger Bregman argues that consumers should boycott OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT after the company\u2019s deal with the Pentagon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-532972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}