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Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Re: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Post by cwillu »

AndyKelley wrote: post #4
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #3

Ads will expand to fill all online spaces. Ads will inevitably come to both, it's just a matter of when they respectively need or decide to capture that profit and when they feel their users are sufficiently dependent so as not to be able to leave.

No ads on Wikipedia tho, not even after 25 years.

The first fundraising banner on wikipedia was in 2003. That is unquestionably an advertisement, and not even an ethical one given the misleading nature of their campaigns these days.

Re: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Post by harmonic18374 »

piva00 wrote: post #9

A supremely weak move, perhaps sama didn't learn anything from being on reddit and watching how online discourse doesn't ever favour the defensive ones. There was absolutely no need to come out publicly with such whiny remarks, it's marketing, as the CEO I'd expect much better than that, he should know that it doesn't help at all. Even more since the ad was funny, coming out with dry remarks about the obvious misrepr…

I think it's all he knows. His "oh, shucks" good-boy routine is what he's been doing for 15 years now, it's gotten him far, it's never been genuine, but it feels especially out of place now with much attention on him and his lies being so obvious.

Re: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Post by spenvo »

"One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path."

OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M https://www.techmeme.com/260102/p10#a260102p10

Re: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Post by paxys »

I will never understand these chronically online CEOs. Your company has given up its massive lead in AI and is falling further behind Google and Anthropic with every passing day and you have nothing better to do than fight ego battles with random people on X all day? Should be a clear signal to the board that there needs to be a shake up at the top.

Re: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Post by pcurve »

Not a fan of Altman, but I don't think the ad will serve Anthropic well in long run.

They may not run ads for foreseeable future, but there will come a point where they introduce a different tier service that does, whether they want it or not.

Their investors will call the shot.

Re: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

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Post by yalogin »

Anthropic’s strategy is weird, they may not be inserting ads today but I am sure this is where they will end up if they get enough volume of users. So saying “not to Claude” is putting them in the same plane as google’s “do no evil”. They will walk it back sooner or later.
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