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Ilayaraja Subramanian, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Canterbury

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Ads are coming to ai does that really have to be such a bad thing | History Defined

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American artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic this month attracted applause – and a surge in users – for clever advertisements poking fun at its competition.

In the commercials, an AI assistant awkwardly breaks away mid-conversation to push products such as shoe insoles and dating services. “Ads are coming to AI”, the Super Bowl-tied spots warned, but not to Anthtropic’s own chatbot Claude.

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