[Kiboneu]

“ we believe access creates agency”

Whose agency? Ads are designed to reduce agency. It’s a red queen’s race from there. It leads to a high level of optimized manipulation and intrusiveness.

That was one of the core points of anthropic’s article.

sama is right that anthropic’s and openai’s businesses are differently shaped. Thank goodness for that.

[jethronethro]

Maybe Altman is talking about creating ad agencies?

[CamperBob2]

If he had any sense he'd buy the one that did these.

[tempodox]

What, can’t his “AI” replicate it?

[CamperBob2]

Almost, but not quite. Another 2-3 years at the current rate of progress and there will be no need to hire actors for these sorts of productions.

Or copywriters either, for that matter.

[wakawaka28]

Ads can either reduce agency or increase it. You can get useful information from ads. It's just got a low payoff, in many cases.

[Kiboneu]

Good distinction, I agree. The core issue is the information asymmetry and its profitability.