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> Anthropic’s head of influencer, Lexie Barnhorn, has described creators as essential to building trust in complicated technical products. Its strategy is partly consumer-to-business: People who adopt Claude personally may later introduce it in their workplaces.
> Anthropic’s best-known creator events have been smaller dinners and pop-ups in which Claude remained the ostensible subject.
The point I am making is if these companies are going to compete and spend more and more money for PR, then they should do it in a way that benefits society, which paying influencers does not do.
Let me know when OpenAI starts actively trying to cure diseases.