[stuxnet79]

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

[AnotherGoodName]

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?

[chrisco255]

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.

[ryandrake]

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...

[sebastiennight]

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]

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]

Member when today's biggest advertising company used to claim no ads as their USP? Tegridy members...

[chvid]

An ad about not serving ads.

[andrei_says_]

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.

[rcpt]

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