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# The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa

**[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A QuitGPT campaign is gaining traction as users cancel ChatGPT subscriptions due to frustration with coding abilities and verbose responses. Electric vehicles could become cheaper to own than gas cars in Africa by 2040 with solar off-grid charging, despite current barriers. Social media companies including Meta, TikTok, and Snap have agreed to independent assessments on teen mental health protection. The FDA refused to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, and OpenAI retired the ChatGPT 4o model due to risks despite user attachment.

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