I was outraged by the pressure the Department of Defense and the Trump administration put on Anthropic last week to accept changes in their contract.
I was also outraged by Sam Altman’s response and decided to simply remove my OpenAI account (easy to do: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6378407-how-to-delete-your-account).
A number of my books have examples using OpenAI APIs. I will in the next few weeks modify the public GitHub repos for these books adding a directory OLD_MATERIAL that will contain the markdown file for any book chapters removed and the OpenAI example code). This will allow my readers to still easily read the removed material as well as the example code.
I will also push revised copies of the affected books to: https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson
Hi Mark. First, thank you for being a great Common LISP author. Second, I cannot agree more. It pains me to see how the US Government Administration is behaving. And I do not trust Silicon Valley with our privacy.
I'm in full support, Mark. I deleted my account as well.