This operation is about a set of very specific objectives; the president laid them out on the very first night of operations. I'll repeat them to you now because I hear a lot of talk about we don't know what the clear objectives are.
The savings disappear the moment you hit real-world complexity. Disparate data sources and messy inputs, ambiguous situations without clear rule sets, or actually any domain where the rules aren't already obvious. And someone still has to write all those rules.
Even though the company was clear about who will see ads and how they will appear in conversations, that has not stopped at least one rival from piling on the criticism. In addition to a blog post clarifying its stance on ads, Anthropic went loud, rolling out four Super Bowl commercials that mock an unnamed AI assistant for suddenly pivoting from sycophantic responses to hard sells.
