Anthropic takes aim at chatbot ads—with its own Super Bowl ad – LinkedIn

Agree & Join LinkedIn By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. Create your free account or sign in to continue your search or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. Welcome to AI This week, I’m focusing on how Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad derides promos from other AI companies. I also look at how social media lawsuits could affect AI chatbots and the ongoing controversy of OpenClaw. . And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com.  In one ad, a psychiatrist offers her young male patient some reasonable, if generic, advice on how to better communicate with his mom, then abruptly pitches him on signing up for “Golden Encounters,” the dating site where “sensitive cubs meet roaring cougars.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, however, was not laughing. He responded to the ads by saying his company would never run ads like the ones portrayed by Anthropic. But he didn’t stop there. He went much further. “Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI on Wednesday. “They block companies they don’t like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can’t use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.” He went on to call Anthropic an “authoritarian company.” for more on the ad’s framing of Anthropic’s services. that recently kicked off in a Los Angeles courtroom. The case centers on a 20-year-old woman who alleges that platforms including Facebook and Instagram used addictive interface designs that caused her mental health problems as a minor. The suit is part of a joint proceeding involving roughly 1,600 plaintiffs accusing major tech companies of harming children. TikTok with plaintiffs, while Meta and YouTube remain the primary defendants. have repeatedly shown that Instagram uses design features associated with compulsive or addictive engagement, and that company researchers were aware of the risks to users, especially teens. Click here Some hobbyists and journalists have gone into freakout mode after seeing or using a new AI agent called OpenClaw One user, vibe-coding guru Alex Finn, posted a video on X Click here AI can now fake the videos we trust most. Here’s how to tell the difference Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents, has a major security problem AI in healthcare is entering a new era of accountability What happens to the AI exit market if the FTC cracks down on ‘acquihires’? for Fast Company Premium.