It’s the Jio moment for AI companies, as tech giants lure laymen, students, professionals, and the government alike with freebies and essentially almost-free access to their cutting-edge AI tools. Sam Altman, in his recent X/Twitter post, announced that OpenAI is now giving access to ChatGPT for a premium of a mere $1 for each federal agency of the US Government.
The move comes in the wake of the imminent launch of GPT-5 that is hyped as the event horizon in the evolution of LLMs.
Per OpenAI, the company’s ChatGPT Enterprise will be made available to the entire federal workforce “at essentially no cost.” According to the company’s blog, this collaboration of OpenAI for Government with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will help “government work better—making services faster, easier, and more reliable.”
The company further claims that using ChatGPT in the pilot program for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees “saved an average of about 95 minutes per day on routine tasks.” In another pilot program for North Carolina public servants at the Department of State Treasures, respondents stated, “positive experience with ChatGPT.”
we are providing ChatGPT access to the entire federal workforce!
(for $1 a year per agency)https://t.co/avYIinWPXX
— Sam Altman (@sama) August 6, 2025
Reactions poured in with a dollop of memes online. Most users criticized subsidies to the US government and others lambasted giving employees any access to AI. One user jibed, “So they submit government secrets?” Another quipped, “George Orwell would be writing a book about this.”
A third user asked, “As a paid subscriber, why am I subsidizing the U.S. federal government?”
Yet another user commented, “And so the OpenAI takeover of our nation-state begins…. None of us voted for you to be able to collect sensitive information at a massive scale from our government’s employees. We do not consent to this.”
One user quoted Richard Serra’s oft-quoted remark from the 1970s,
“When something is free, you’re the product.”
So they submit government secrets?
— Matter as Machine (@matterasmachine) August 6, 2025
George Orwell would be writing a book about this
— James CryptoGuru (@Jamyies) August 6, 2025
As a paid subscriber, why am I subsidizing the U.S. federal government?
— 𝔸𝕝𝕘𝕠𝕊𝕟𝕒𝕗𝕦 (@AlgoSnafu) August 6, 2025
Federal employees entering state secrets into chatGPT and hearing that’s not a good idea pic.twitter.com/JCGdxi7qZ2
— Alexander Dale (@_alex_dale) August 6, 2025
And so the @OpenAI takeover of our nation-state begins….
None of us voted for you to be able to collect sensitive information at a massive scale from our government’s employees.
We do not consent to this.
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) August 6, 2025
when something is free, you’re the product
— bone (@boneGPT) August 6, 2025
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