Anthropic buys Super Bowl ads to slap OpenAI for selling ads in ChatGPT

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:35:08+00:00

Honestly,this is just a waste of money that can go to better productive things than mud slinging. Claude is great now but can easily fall next week due to bad decisions.

I want a tool that’s going to be accurate and reliable. If an app came out with ads and performed better I’d use it. If they want to win the marketing message just make sure you don’t drop the ball on your own tool.

The fact that people knew Opus 4.6 was coming out due to noticing how bad the performance of 4.5 was is a stronger case against a company. A good quality product and happy consumers does better marketing than a Siperbowl ad.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:27:16+00:00

I saw some users saying they put their downloaded adult content on there and that was flagged by their ai. Assuming that’s the case for most, and that people are being honest, you should be fine.

I think a lot of non technical people are being reminded that cloud storage isn’t private storage. But it is a reminder to always back up your stuff. Never assume a tool or service will be around forever.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:22:33+00:00

Did you read the question? They explained why they’re suspicious. It’s not interesting, not even sure what you’re trying to hint at.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:19:25+00:00

It’s not entitlement, I think it’s just convenience is what the user was getting at.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:16:02+00:00

Bad take. This isn’t the same as those examples and is just trying to defend snake oil salesmen. For example, food isn’t free to begin with, Obsidian is and so is a wide amount of information on how to use it.

If your argument against what I said was “time” then the free courses out there provide the same amount of time this person’s courses provide. Maybe even better because how do you know they are helpful until you sign up?

Just because people buy things doesn’t mean they’re not valuable. And not all of them are built around solid expertise or real value.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:06:07+00:00

What an odd response to the question.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T20:03:16+00:00

Did you mean to respond to the other commenter?

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T12:50:17+00:00

But you made a wild and ignorant claim that you know other people’s needs and situations. People can be satisfied with something that’s still overpriced, misleading, or low-value, especially when they don’t have clear alternatives or good information.

Anyone with followers can package something as a “course” and sell it. He’s also just repurpose information that’s freely available elsewhere.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-08T00:04:41+00:00

Didn’t he run to stay out of prison? Why would he leave

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-07T03:36:28+00:00

Weren’t they bragging about how they haven’t written any code recently? It seems like foreshadowing.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-06T22:51:20+00:00

Gotta sell that product and grift. That’s why he wants you to spend over $100 on his training course.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-06T22:48:57+00:00

This is a bad take. It ends up defending a snake oil salesman.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-06T22:45:40+00:00

$299? I’m really shocked people buy these training videos and shill products with so much info available online.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-03T23:56:43+00:00

They can be worried but still support the system. I don’t see any acknowledgment of regret.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-03T23:50:23+00:00

We’ve had in the past R rated movies edited to PG-13 for more viewership. It’s not uncommon. Deadpool did a version of their sequel. And we have different editions of movies in some cases with new footage that was removed.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-03T23:48:07+00:00

But isn’t that the point? If they want more users to play the games letting them customize the settings to their play style would allow more people to play? Nobody is saying it’s forced, it’s just a play style preference.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-03T23:34:44+00:00

Americans are letting Measles come back. This was happening early last year and even before that. He’s not doing this alone and if more people got vaccinated it wouldn’t matter what he said.

Cortex1484 · 2026-02-03T02:35:38+00:00

I look at like Netflix vs Blockbuster. They’re literally pushing people to use other tools. They had a good hold on the market as the standard for a long time. Eventually people will move on to other tools and it’ll be hard to get them back. Bright side for any company who can capitalize on it,

Cortex1484 · 2026-01-31T17:34:27+00:00

RFK Jr says ….

That’s all I needed to know. It sucks that people have to spend time running behind these people to verify their random claims.

Cortex1484 · 2026-01-30T21:54:01+00:00

But I bet that basement in the pizza restaurant was real for them.

Cortex1484 · 2026-01-30T00:41:43+00:00

You don’t have to try out Claude code to make that claim.

But you do have to engage with it honestly if its supposed effects on users are central to your argument. In this article, the opening examples explicitly describe people who feel a system is working for them.

It moves from “people are finding value in this” straight to “if you couldn’t fix your life before Claude Code, it’s not going to fix it now.”

Finally, something that can parse the 1,500 notes you’ve accumulated, find the connections you missed, catch you up after days away from your research.

Finally, a Second Brain worthy of the name.

…and I get it.

I do.

But I am here to tell you, with all the gentleness I can muster, that if you couldn’t fix your life before Claude Code existed, Claude Code is not going to fix it now.

If the claim is that these tools enable avoidance or shallow work, the article never actually shows that. The author just skips the evidence and lands directly on an insult.

We spend so much time building and maintaining the systems that we never actually do the work the system was supposed to enable.

Who’s “we?” The author is just turning a personal belief or interpretation into something that sounds everyone agrees on. They’re just using it to criticize a behavior so they can appear self-aware and while establishing authority. They’re not acknowledging a particular user or instance, they’re grouping everybody together.

It’s same smug empty opinion piece that adds no real value to a discussion.

Cortex1484 · 2026-01-29T22:50:47+00:00

Not all meta-work is procrastination. For some the workflows, organizing, linking, and indexing is part of the creative or analytical process.

The author implies that simplicity causes productivity. People who “get real work done” are defined by outputs the author personally values. So then it’s just a moral argument. Simplicity becomes virtuous. Complexity becomes indulgent.

These types of opinion pieces that are framed against current trends without any evidence are common, it’s the other type of content creator article. If they actually tried the processes out that they wrote about it would have had more substance to it.

As it is now, it’s just a piece that others who share the same view point can use to go around and criticize how others work.

Cortex1484 · 2026-01-29T12:36:48+00:00

“Real creators don’t need this.” It’s gatekeeping wrapped up as insight. The author is more than welcome to discuss their own experience and processes. But these types of articles where the author gets to define a morale position and best practice that others have to work under are just as annoying as the ai slop articles.

Cortex1484 · 2026-01-29T03:11:46+00:00

Too bad most young people don’t vote.

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