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Anthropic Promises Claude Will Remain Ad-Free, Mocks ChatGPT Ads in Super Bowl Commercial

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As OpenAI is making plans to introduce ads to ChatGPT, competitor Anthropic has promised to keep Claude ad-free. In a blog post today, the company said that there are "many good places for advertising," but a "conversation with Claude is not one of them."

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According to Anthropic, including ads in Claude would not be in line with its mission of creating a helpful assistant for work and deep thinking. Anthropic claims that users should not need to second-guess whether an AI is being helpful or "subtly steering the conversation towards something monetizable."

There will be no ads or sponsored links in conversations with Claude, and Claude's responses will not be influenced by advertisers or include third-party product placements.
Our analysis of conversations with Claude (conducted in a way that keeps all data private and anonymous) shows that an appreciable portion involve topics that are sensitive or deeply personal--the kinds of conversations you might have with a trusted advisor. Many other uses involve complex software engineering tasks, deep work, or thinking through difficult problems. The appearance of ads in these contexts would feel incongruous--and, in many cases, inappropriate.
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Promising an ad-free experience could encourage people to choose Claude over OpenAI's ChatGPT. In January, OpenAI said that it would start testing ads in the United States for free and Go tier subscribers, though subscribers with higher paid tiers will not see ads. OpenAI claims that ads will be clearly labeled and will not influence the answers that ChatGPT provides, nor will the company provide conversation details to advertisers.

To further reinforce the difference between Claude's ad-free experience and ChatGPT's ad-supported experience, Anthropic plans to run a humorous Super Bowl commercial where a man gets an unwanted cougar dating ad after asking about his mother. "Ads are coming to AI," reads the video's text. "But not to Claude."


Anthropic plans to continue to monetize through enterprise contracts and paid subscriptions, with revenue reinvested in improving Claude. Anthropic will maintain a free tier, and the company says that it may also offer lower-cost subscription tiers and regional pricing in the future if there is demand for it. Claude Pro is priced at $20 per month, which is the same price as ChatGPT's higher-end Plus tier.

An ad-free Claude experience isn't a sure thing forever, as Anthropic gives itself an out in the blog post: "Should we need to revisit this approach, we'll be transparent about our reasons for doing so."

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I know these companies have to keep up with this ridiculousness--because the equity and debt markets are forcing them to . . . and I know they have to figure out how to monetize given that crazy amount of spend (Google just said they were going to increase spending to $150B and Microsoft said something similar) . . . but I wish this crap ends sooner than later.

And this ad is spot on. I have to semi-regularly tell several of these LLMs to stop asking about my personal life, and to stop trying to gain permissions to things to connect better with others. I'm hoping that the Apple/Google Gemini solution is going to have some hard-coded guardrails against this kind of stuff, but we'll have to see. I'm not looking for a friend of any kind with AI, and I don't mind if that makes me a bigot in this case.
 
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Free also means you don’t have to give your card / financial details about - BUT - You’re still uploading data to a data center somewhere maybe not even the US - do NOT send personal data, voting data or anything about YOU up to the cloud. Free is probably better but use an anonymous profile and use a VPN - stay safe folks
 
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Elwe said:
I know these companies have to keep up with this ridiculousness--because the equity and debt markets are forcing them to . . . and I know they have to figure out how to monetize given that crazy amount of spend (Google just said they were going to increase spending to $150B and Microsoft said something similar) . . . but I wish this crap ends sooner than later.

And this ad is spot on. I have to semi-regularly tell several of these LLMs to stop asking about my personal life, and to stop trying to gain permissions to things to connect better with others. I'm hoping that the Apple/Google Gemini solution is going to have some hard-coded guardrails against this kind of stuff, but we'll have to see. I'm not looking for a friend of any kind with AI, and I don't mind if that makes me a bigot in this case.
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Agreed - also remember that data leaks - is sold - is requested by governments and control of data can be bought, change hands and hacked - stay away kids - oh and stay in school and think - nobody needs LLM fro everyday life - don’t delegate your thinking to predicative search tools full of sources true and false
 
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It's a no-win proposition for OpenAI. If the ads are targeted based on the user's profile and conversations, they'll seem intrusive and creepy and will cause users to doubt the objectivity of the AI conversation responses. But if the ads are NOT targeted, they'll have a miserable response rate and advertisers won't be interested in them unless they are priced so inexpensively that they won't make as much money as OpenAI hopes.
 
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Elwe said:
I know these companies have to keep up with this ridiculousness--because the equity and debt markets are forcing them to . . . and I know they have to figure out how to monetize given that crazy amount of spend (Google just said they were going to increase spending to $150B and Microsoft said something similar) . . . but I wish this crap ends sooner than later.

And this ad is spot on. I have to semi-regularly tell several of these LLMs to stop asking about my personal life, and to stop trying to gain permissions to things to connect better with others. I'm hoping that the Apple/Google Gemini solution is going to have some hard-coded guardrails against this kind of stuff, but we'll have to see. I'm not looking for a friend of any kind with AI, and I don't mind if that makes me a bigot in this case.
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I don't disagree, but ending it is a terrifying prospect for the broader economy too. It boggles the mind that AI capex spending surpassed the entirety of consumer spending in the US last year, is concentrated in a handful of companies, and the double-dipping revenue-reporting shenanigans seem like a time bomb. Hopefully it all evolves into something stable enough, beyond all this thrashing to find profit.
 
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Let's remember Meta and Google make their money on advertising, everything else is just finding what to do with all that advertising money. I wouldn't marginalize them for that anymore than for Google and Meta. And If Anthropic bet on advertising they'd probably starve as their marketshare is miniscule. So as a space pirate once said, "laugh it up fuzzball"
 
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That's all this joke of a "race" is about: who can create the most powerful "AI" to sell to the Pentagon for practically unlimited funding.
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Yep, and guess why all those Nvidia GPU's are suddenly all the rage and funding is suddenly "yep, take as many as you want. I know you're good for it wink wink"
 
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That's all this joke of a "race" is about: who can create the most powerful "AI" to sell to the Pentagon for practically unlimited funding.
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There's so much more beyond these chatbot-style interfaces that make up the AI race. Physical AI — robots — is a massively disruptive force coming within a year. In Japan and China, people already have personal assistant bots living in their households. That's coming to North America within a year or two. Before flying cars. Go figure.
 
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