Claude is a space for reflection | Anthropocene

There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.

Advertising promotes competition, helps people discover new products, and enables services such as email and social media to be provided free of charge. We have run our own advertising campaigns and our AI models have, in turn, helped many of our customers in the advertising industry.

But including advertising in conversations with Claude would be inconsistent with what we expect from Claude: a truly helpful assistant for work and deep thinking.

We want Claude to clearly act in the interests of our users. That’s why we’ve made a decision: Claude will remain ad-free. Our users do not see “sponsored” links next to their conversations with Claude. Claude’s answers are also not influenced by advertisers or contain third-party product placements that our users have not asked for.

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