New Delhi, March 3 -- Amid widescale user backlash, CEO Sam Altman has in a clarification post online acknowledged the company's rush to sign a deal with the Pentagon "just looked opportunistic and sloppy".

A significant number of Americans cancelled their OpenAI and ChatGPT subscriptions to move to other alternatives, after Altman on Saturday announced the company had reached an agreement with the United States Department of Defense to deploy its models in classified networks.

The announcement also came amid the US government's very public feud with rival Anthropic PBC over "full military use" of its AI models and insistence on some limits. The two key sticking points for are use of AI for fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass sur...