[Stratoscope]

> ...the financial fallout from losing the government contracts will pale in comparison to the goodwill from consumers.

In fact, a friend heard about this and immediately signed up for a $200/year Claude Pro plan. This is someone who has been only a very occasional user of ChatGPT and never used Claude before.

I told my friend "You could just sign up for the free plan and upgrade after you try it out."

"No, I want to send them this tangible message of support right now!"

[layer8]

Still, you’d need a million people to do that to compensate the $200M military contract.

[pcthrowaway]

I don't think it's easy to compare how this might affect their bottom line.

Anthropic may gain customers, but OpenAI may lose customers also (or they may even gain customers).

Maybe OpenAI also has to pay their employees more now for "moral flexibility". Or maybe right-wing devs are more inclined to work there, I don't know.

[AznHisoka]

As an aside, there are probably lots of companies that serve the government seriously considering cutting the government as a customer.

Simply because the money/efficienct they will lose from cutting Claude will surpass the revenue they get from the gov

[Tepix]

Does the military pay $200m per month?

[blurbleblurble]

Not all that many people

[yencabulator]

I'm seeing a lot of "QuitGPT" posts. It seems your friend has friends.