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Claude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I get it if you want to use their premium models, but just yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It

by willio58 10mo ago

Claude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I get it if you want to use their premium models, but just yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It prompted me a couple of times to log in and I dropped off immediately and went back to ChatGPT. Just a dumb decision in my eyes

baal80spam 10mo ago
Well, Gemini is the same.
- ethmarks 10mo ago
  No it isn't. At least not on my devices. Try opening gemini.google.com in an incognito window.
sothatsit 10mo ago
Seems like a good decision if they are trying to avoid consumers and focus on professional users who are more likely to create an account and pay. Especially if they are constrained on compute.
tehlike 10mo ago
You are using a free service, and think the provider cannot ask for a simple login. Anonymity is fine to ask for, but you are not paying for something and you are getting value...
charcircuit 10mo ago
I was curious and using a watch I found it took me 25 seconds to sign up and setup an account. You probably spent more time trying to work around this and typing this comment than it would have taken to setup your account.
bdangubic 10mo ago
I tried your approach with a contractor working on my kitchen - ask her if she will do all the work for free - nope. so dumb
- neodymiumphish 10mo ago
  Well the other contractor (ChatGPT) will happily do it for free. From a comparison perspective, his complaint is valid.
  - bdangubic 10mo ago
    If I got a contractor now that offered it for free there is exactly 0.00006% chance I would take it (job is $40k-ish). nothing is free :)
  - dangus 10mo ago
    ChatGPT without a login is basically a 5 minute free trial with no integration with any other system besides web search. You get bumped down to a way worse experience almost immediately and the login nags are so strong that logged-out use is almost certainly going away in the near future. It’s like the contractor that comes over for free but mainly does so to find every possible problem in your house that they might be able to charge you for.

baal80spam 10mo ago

Well, Gemini is the same.

ethmarks 10mo ago
No it isn't. At least not on my devices. Try opening gemini.google.com in an incognito window.

sothatsit 10mo ago

Seems like a good decision if they are trying to avoid consumers and focus on professional users who are more likely to create an account and pay. Especially if they are constrained on compute.

tehlike 10mo ago

You are using a free service, and think the provider cannot ask for a simple login. Anonymity is fine to ask for, but you are not paying for something and you are getting value...

charcircuit 10mo ago

I was curious and using a watch I found it took me 25 seconds to sign up and setup an account. You probably spent more time trying to work around this and typing this comment than it would have taken to setup your account.

bdangubic 10mo ago

I tried your approach with a contractor working on my kitchen - ask her if she will do all the work for free - nope. so dumb

neodymiumphish 10mo ago
Well the other contractor (ChatGPT) will happily do it for free. From a comparison perspective, his complaint is valid.
- bdangubic 10mo ago
  If I got a contractor now that offered it for free there is exactly 0.00006% chance I would take it (job is $40k-ish). nothing is free :)
- dangus 10mo ago
  ChatGPT without a login is basically a 5 minute free trial with no integration with any other system besides web search. You get bumped down to a way worse experience almost immediately and the login nags are so strong that logged-out use is almost certainly going away in the near future. It’s like the contractor that comes over for free but mainly does so to find every possible problem in your house that they might be able to charge you for.