Amid ‘Cancel ChatGPT’ trend, Anthropic launches feature to help users switch to Claude

As users across social media platforms threaten to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions and switch to Claude, Anthropic has launched a new feature to take advantage of the momentum. The company on Monday announced the new feature via a post on the official Claude handle on Threads, where it said users can now import saved memories from other AI chatbots directly over to Claude.

Notably, Google was also recently tipped to be working on a similar feature for Gemini that lets the chatbot bring in memories from other chatbots, but Anthropic seems to have beaten the tech giant to the punch. The key limit of Anthropic's implementation, however, is that the company only allows its paid users to bring in memories from other chatbots.

Cancel ChatGPT trend takes off

Notably, Anthropic recently made headlines after the Pentagon cancelled its deal with the Dario Amodei-led company, following its refusal to compromise on two non-negotiable “red lines” for Claude's military use: no mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

Late last week, US President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI immediately and said the company had put the “national security” of the US in jeopardy.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Anthropic would be labelled a “supply chain risk to national security”, a designation which is usually reserved for adversarial foreign companies like Huawei.

Adding fuel to the fire, OpenAI announced its partnership with the US government on the same day for deploying its AI models in classified environments. The Sam Altman-led company said it had set three major red lines for use of its models with the US government, including the use of its AI for mass domestic surveillance, direct autonomous weapons systems and high-stakes automated decisions.

However, the deal by the ChatGPT maker seemed to set off a blaze on social media, where suddenly the ‘Cancel ChatGPT’ trend started taking shape. Reddit forums dedicated to ChatGPT and OpenAI also saw an influx of posts about concerns on the use of ChatGPT for military purposes, along with a sudden admiration for Claude. Several users on these forums called for cancelling ChatGPT subscriptions and switching to Claude.

"we're all in the death business now that OpenAI has succumbed to the corrupt Department of War. Let's see proof of your cancellation boys and girls [sic]," wrote a user on Reddit.

"With a heavy heart, I have canceled my ChatGPT subscription. No longer will I fund the machine that creates summaries that I only skim of articles that I will never read [sic]," added another user.

Claude recently beat ChatGPT in the Apple US App Store rankings and became the number 1 free app on the platform.