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Actual ad since it's not available in the tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA

AnotherGoodName 9mo ago
Oh dear. The ad doesn’t directly reference openai at all and for those of us out of the loop on all of this we wouldn’t have read it as such. I had no idea openai were considering this. I think Sam would have been far better off to let this lie. I’m not at all sure of the nature of the ads coming in chatgpt but by responding so personally and aggressively to what appears to be sillyness feels like they hit a bit close to home?
- ryandrake 9mo ago
  Yea, the response really sounds ultra defensive, almost like Anthropic nailed exactly what they're planning to do, and it's now Damage Control time...
- chrisco255 9mo ago
  Yeah I just don't think the average person is going to even get what they are talking about and they may not really care about ads in exchange for free-to-use ChatGPT. Most ChatGPT users are just using it as a search and summary tool. And they were seeing ads before via Google so what difference does it make? While the Anthropic ads might be a hit amongst nerds, it won't compel normies to use Claude over ChatGPT, and in fact, it may just be damaging to AI adoption overall as it presents bad taste examples of how corruptible it all is.
chvid 9mo ago
An ad about not serving ads.
- andrei_says_ 8mo ago
  It signals a commitment which will help me make a decision. I do pay extra for privacy and quality. Enshittified LLMs are not something I’m interested in.
sebastiennight 9mo ago
They're making a big promise here, that very few tech companies have been able to keep in the past. Maybe there's a predictive market gamble starting about how long it will take Claude to follow suit if OpenAI starts making 9 figures in ad revenue.
- rtpg 9mo ago
  Counterpoint being that Slack, for example, for all its faults, does not have ads in its chats. If Anthropic is positioned as "thing for professionals to do professional work" then I think you just avoid this issue entirely. Fee for service. OpenAI trying to be the thing everyone is using won't work in that model, though.
- potamic 9mo ago
  Member when today's biggest advertising company used to claim no ads as their USP? Tegridy members...
rcpt 9mo ago
Reminds me of those fake GI Joe PSAs from 20 years ago.
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AnotherGoodName 9mo ago

Oh dear. The ad doesn’t directly reference openai at all and for those of us out of the loop on all of this we wouldn’t have read it as such. I had no idea openai were considering this. I think Sam would have been far better off to let this lie. I’m not at all sure of the nature of the ads coming in chatgpt but by responding so personally and aggressively to what appears to be sillyness feels like they hit a bit close to home?

ryandrake 9mo ago
Yea, the response really sounds ultra defensive, almost like Anthropic nailed exactly what they're planning to do, and it's now Damage Control time...
chrisco255 9mo ago
Yeah I just don't think the average person is going to even get what they are talking about and they may not really care about ads in exchange for free-to-use ChatGPT. Most ChatGPT users are just using it as a search and summary tool. And they were seeing ads before via Google so what difference does it make? While the Anthropic ads might be a hit amongst nerds, it won't compel normies to use Claude over ChatGPT, and in fact, it may just be damaging to AI adoption overall as it presents bad taste examples of how corruptible it all is.

chvid 9mo ago

An ad about not serving ads.

andrei_says_ 8mo ago
It signals a commitment which will help me make a decision. I do pay extra for privacy and quality. Enshittified LLMs are not something I’m interested in.

sebastiennight 9mo ago

They're making a big promise here, that very few tech companies have been able to keep in the past. Maybe there's a predictive market gamble starting about how long it will take Claude to follow suit if OpenAI starts making 9 figures in ad revenue.

rtpg 9mo ago
Counterpoint being that Slack, for example, for all its faults, does not have ads in its chats. If Anthropic is positioned as "thing for professionals to do professional work" then I think you just avoid this issue entirely. Fee for service. OpenAI trying to be the thing everyone is using won't work in that model, though.
potamic 9mo ago
Member when today's biggest advertising company used to claim no ads as their USP? Tegridy members...

rcpt 9mo ago

Reminds me of those fake GI Joe PSAs from 20 years ago.

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