Did they use Claude to generate the idea? Sounds like an AI hallucination spiral. “Yes, we’ll show a few hundred gravestones at Arlington cemetery and talk about hard questions”. I can see Claude writing that.
> Who’s gonna hit the brakes if we need to?’” said one commenter, sharing the cemetery image that appears in the ad.
A human not captured by AI psychosis should review their PR comms! First it was the “some models are so dangerous government should restrict them”. Then, the dead soldiers commercial. What is going on at Anthropic? Are they getting desperate because of Kimi K3 or something?
> “[T]he EAs [effective altruists] at anthropic really must be living in a bubble of ai psychosis to think this would go down well,” a critical poster remarked.
My first reaction to the ad is, this feels very much like a messiah complex… like… SBF…
Is the "who is going to step in" quote over the image of the (military?) headstones with American flags supposed to invoke the thought of the American government being a global AI policeman?
My first impression after viewing was that this is less "owning the harms" and more simple "leading and pacing".
Note how the voiceovers start with hard, even fundamental criticism of AI, including "why do we need this at all?". But then over the course of the video, the criticism becomes ever more narrow and "nuanced", before straight up turning into "can AI do X for me?" questions thay could have been grabbed right from the ChatGPT homepage.
If that's what Anthropic sees as "hope", it's probably more hope for itself...
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 18.4 ms ] thread> Who’s gonna hit the brakes if we need to?’” said one commenter, sharing the cemetery image that appears in the ad.
A human not captured by AI psychosis should review their PR comms! First it was the “some models are so dangerous government should restrict them”. Then, the dead soldiers commercial. What is going on at Anthropic? Are they getting desperate because of Kimi K3 or something?
Trying to make claude come off as human and friendly is never going to work in an ad, it would be huge uncanny valley.
So may as well try to scare people, might help juice the ipo a tiny bit from clueless people
My first reaction to the ad is, this feels very much like a messiah complex… like… SBF…
Note how the voiceovers start with hard, even fundamental criticism of AI, including "why do we need this at all?". But then over the course of the video, the criticism becomes ever more narrow and "nuanced", before straight up turning into "can AI do X for me?" questions thay could have been grabbed right from the ChatGPT homepage.
If that's what Anthropic sees as "hope", it's probably more hope for itself...