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

> ...but including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking.

Sadly, with my disillusionment with the tech industry, plus the trend of the past 20 years, this smacks of Larry Page's early statements about how bad advertising could distort search results and Google would never do that. Unsurprisingly, I am not able to find the exact quote with Google.

Yeah, it’s a shame we’ve all grown so jarred, I do see this better than nothing.

In this animal farm Orwellian cycle we’ve been going through, at least they start here, unlike others.

I for one commend this, but stay vigilant.