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

MacRumors said:
Promising an ad-free experience could encourage people to choose Claude over OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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Except nobody knows what Claude is. If I asked everyone at work whether they prefer ChatGPT or Claude, I would get blank stares. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is essentially universally known.
 
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awshucks said:
And I still haven’t seen any ads in my ChatGPT chats yet
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From the announcement: "We’re not launching ads yet, but we do plan to start testing in the coming weeks for logged in adults in the U.S. on the free and Go tiers." So stay tuned.
 
Billy_Bob said:
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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They already said that the ads will be targeted: "To start, we plan to test ads at the bottom of answers in ChatGPT when there’s a relevant sponsored product or service based on your current conversation. Ads will be clearly labeled and separated from the organic answer. [...] ads are not eligible to appear near sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics. Here’s an example of what the first ad formats we plan to test could look like:"

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What an interesting ad - its not about how advanced their models are, or how much you can use them (not much, even on paid plans), its advertising against a competitor's revenue strategy instead of their own strengths.

I was a fan of Claude for awhile but have since switched back to ChatGPT (codex) and it's just a better experience these days.
 
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coolfactor said:
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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lmao "Physical AI" - is this Jensen Huang?

Hey Japan and China: how are those personal assistant bots working out? (it's like they chose the farthest countries from the West thinking it's 1990 and we can't check whether or not these assistant bots are a thing)

"Before flying cars. Go figure" yeah man the future is here; I and the other luddites better get ready🤦‍♂️

Good Lord! the AI grifters will NOT go away
 
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Good to see that there will be no ads, at least for now. Hope they don't plan to incorporate ads in the future. But highly possible that it might happen one day.
 
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“Keep thinking.” I love that. That’s what I use Clade for. I’ve actually given it a system prompt never to hand me an answer, instead giving me guiding directions to figure it out for myself.
 
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senttoschool said:
ChatGPT is used by 800 million people monthly. Most of them are free users. They need to be monetized.

Free with ads is very reasonable.

Anthropic’s claude caters mostly to professionals. They don’t need an ad based product.

Two different segments.
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Yes, they literally explained this in a new blog post on their website. Claude does get most of its money through contracts, which is what offsets its chats for now.
 
rp2011 said:
Surprising how many people put up with it on Google Search and YouTube. Or on Instagram. But they do. And it more than pays the bills. I hear Apple is also seriously considering them.
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Ppl not know about ad blockers?
 
MacRumors said:
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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So… the promise is a lie.

As in "we will not be making any immediate layoffs“.
And tomorrow is "immediately" over.

I would appreciate it if macrumors would point out such discrepancies (realities) in the headline.
 
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