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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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It doesn’t matter. Companies are hypocritical all the time, a few people make noise at the time, then it’s forgotten.
You're right. As long as they don't make a long series of these ads and espouse it as a virtue like Google did with their 'don't be evil', no one will care.
“ 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.
Maybe Altman is talking about creating ad agencies?
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
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.
> One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path.
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Do you not think those intrusive banners and popups implying that Wikipedia is about to imminently go broke unless you give them money, are ads?
I think you're letting pedantry hinder you from seeing a useful pattern.
I don't think it takes pedantry to think advertising in order to solicit funds for a non-profit is still advertising.
If anything the criteria I would apply is does it diminish the user experience while attempting to motivate the viewer to act in a manner that benefits the advertiser.
May I ask why you do not consider it advertising? Is it because it is asking for donations? Because it is a non-profit? If so, why would those factors exempt them?
I am certainly not alone in thinking their fundraising campaigns are intrusive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175098
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
These videos have high chance of aging like milk... We'll see what Anthropic does 10 years from now. Remember "don't be evil"
I pay ChatGPT 20 bucks a month, or whatever the subscription is. I get massive value out of this, Sam Altman is paying for my computing power. I’m paying a tenth(or less) of what the actual price is. Once that no longer applies, I will ditch ChatGPT and probably build my own LLM computer.
So thanks Sam for giving me cheap computing power.
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I'm not sure what your point is. High P/E is a sign of overvaluation and a bad investment. Just because the market is irrational doesn't mean you should sign up for to be a bag holder.
Pretty sure OPs point is that Tesla has shitty results, has a CEO that lives “any publicity is good publicity” as a mantra and the company valuation is through the roof.
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...