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First, the good part about human ads: they’re funny, and I laughed.
But I wonder why Anthropists would turn to something so obviously dishonest. Our most important principle when it comes to advertising is that we won’t do exactly this; Obviously we will never show ads the way Anthropic envisions them. We’re not stupid and we know our users will disapprove of this.
I think it’s right for the double language of humanity to use a deceptive ad to criticize theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but the Super Bowl ad is not where I expect it to be.
Most importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. There are more Texans using ChatGPT for free than the total number of people using Claude in the US, so we have a different problem than them. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don’t show you ads.)
Anthropy offers an expensive product to the rich. We’re glad they do and we do too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to the billions of people who can’t afford subscriptions.
Perhaps most importantly, Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI, they stop companies they don’t like from using their programming product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can’t use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.
We are committed to broad and democratic decision-making as well as accessibility. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care deeply about safe and useful AGI at scale, and we know that the only way to achieve that is by working with the world to prepare.
One authoritarian company will not get there alone, not to mention the other obvious risks. It’s a dark road.
As for our Super Bowl ad: It’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything.
We enjoy watching so many people convert to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since its launch on Monday, and we think developers are really going to love what’s to come in the next few weeks. I think Codex will win.
We will continue to work hard to provide more information to users at lower and lower prices.
This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.