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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 fuzzfactor »

baubino wrote: post #29
spenvo wrote: post #14

"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

That line stood out to me too. I don’t care about any of these companies but one of them accusing another of being authoritarian and a “dark path” is quite ironic.

You could interpret it as saying that it's going to take two authoritarian companies . . .

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

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Post by licyeus »

paxys wrote: post #18

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.

We live in an era where attention matters more than reality. Chronically online CEOs are aware of this.

Om Malik has been writing about this recently, especially regarding OpenAI / Altman [1], but you can see it everywhere.

1 - https://om.co/2026/02/02/openai-and-the-announcement-economy...

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

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Post by skybrian »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #47

> Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. But they are paying, aren't they? Advertisements don't generate money from thin air. Advertisements cause people to spend money they otherwise would not have spent. That's why companies buy ads in the first…

It's a bit more complicated. On average, someone is paying, but averages can be misleading. As we see with free-to-play games, whales can subsidize a lot of usage by other people who don't pay a thing.

It seems like the same is true of advertising. Yes, some people are spending money but it doesn't necessarily follow that they're people who can't afford it.

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

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Post by uejfiweun »

The guy's a master of spin, no doubt. I don't know how you start out with the concept of ads in AI chatbots and end with "This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them." What a bunch of generic nonsense... and yet people lap it up like puppy dogs.

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

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Post by ddtaylor »

mi_lk wrote: post #42

your daily Streisand effect: * https://youtu.be/FBSam25u8O4 * https://youtu.be/De-_wQpKw0s * https://youtu.be/kQRu7DdTTVA * https://youtu.be/3sVD3aG_azw Hope the dude is ok, can't imagine getting so offended by these ads

Well played Anthropic!

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

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Post by AreShoesFeet000 »

smuhakg wrote: post #54

> Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. This is a glaring admission ChatGPT is a poor man's Claude in the literal sense.

I literally opened Claude’s website to check for prices. I ain’t rich but I’m not really trying to go with the poor man’s AI.

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

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Post by jcstk »

willis936 wrote: post #59
jcstk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's influencer marketing. These 'ego battles' are a show to keep their brand in front of you. It's engaging like reality television. This is very valuable, especially for companies that need to fund their growth through investment and grants.

This smells a lot of "any publicity is good publicity", which has been false for more than a decade. You know what makes line go up? Results.

OK.

Tesla Trailing P/E: 390.70 Apple Trailing P/E: 34.11 Ford Trailing P/E : 11.74

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

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Post by ddtaylor »

JoshPurtell wrote: post #28
827a wrote: post #17

This is really, really bad for OpenAI; both these ads (which are very good) and Sam's response.

Completely absent of substance

It appears now that zero, with your zero added, has created a final total sum of zero as well.

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

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Post by swordsith »

plagiarist wrote: post #52
Handy-Man wrote: post #5

He sounds rattled, you don't respond in this manner from the position of power. They didn't need to respond at all, all they did opening their mouth is bring more eyes to Anthropic.

IDK if it was the right move to complain that a competitor won't license their competing software to your company.

Yeah that was telling as to why he was having this fit it seems.

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

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Post by wakawaka28 »

Kiboneu wrote: post #10

“ we believe access creates agency” Whose agency? Ads are designed to reduce agency. It’s a red queen’s race from there. It leads to a high level of optimized manipulation and intrusiveness. That was one of the core points of anthropic’s article. sama is right that anthropic’s and openai’s businesses are differently shaped. Thank goodness for that.

Ads can either reduce agency or increase it. You can get useful information from ads. It's just got a low payoff, in many cases.
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