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Title: ChatGPT Uninstalls Surged By 295% After Pentagon Deal

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/03/05272...

After OpenAI announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense,
U.S. uninstalls of ChatGPT surged 295% in a single day. Meanwhile, rival
Anthropic "gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App
Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard," reports Engadget. TechCrunch reports:
This data, which comes from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower,
represents a sizable increase compared with ChatGPT's typical day-over-day
uninstall rate of 9%, as measured over the past 30 days. [...] In addition,
ChatGPT's download growth was impacted by the news of its DoD partnership,
with its U.S. downloads dropping by 13% day-over-day on Saturday, shortly
after the news of its deal went public. Those downloads continued to fall on
Sunday, when they were down by 5% day-over-day. (Before the partnership was
announced, the app's downloads had grown 14% day-over-day on Friday.) [...]
Consumers are also sharing their opinions about OpenAI's deal in the app's
ratings, where 1-star reviews for ChatGPT surged 775% on Saturday, then grew
100% day-over-day on Sunday, Sensor Tower said. Five-star reviews declined
during the same period, dropping by 50%. Other third-party data providers
back up Sensor Tower's findings.

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