Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution
1/23/20261 hr 14 min
Ads are coming to ChatGPT’s free and low-cost subscription tiers. We explain what they’ll look like, why OpenAI is taking this approach and whether the company can court advertising dollars without compromising quality and user trust. Then, Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher in charge of shaping Claude’s personality, joins us to discuss the company’s newly released “Claude Constitution” and what it takes to teach a chatbot to be good.
As a bonus, if you’re interested in learning how to get started with Claude Code, you can check out our tutorial on YouTube.
Guest:
- Amanda Askell, a member of Anthropic’s technical staff
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
So we're breaking up.
Kevin Roose· Host0:01
Why?
Speaker 00:02
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Kevin Roose· Host0:06
All Pain, Some Gain, $9 a month.
Speaker 00:09
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Kevin Roose· Host0:17
Wow, so goodbye?
Speaker 00:18
More like good savings. Cha-ching!
Speaker 20:21
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Casey Newton· Host0:28
Experian. You know, I'm now regularly running into CAPTCHAs when logging into my Google accounts that I cannot solve.
Kevin Roose· Host0:37
Yeah, have you noticed this?
Casey Newton· Host0:38
Yes.
Kevin Roose· Host0:38
They've gotten harder.
Casey Newton· Host0:39
Yes, they've, they've... They're twisting the letters more- Yes ... and they're pressing them closer together.
Kevin Roose· Host0:44
Have you seen the ones where you have to, like, rotate the, like, object into the same direction- Yes ... as the, the sort of example?
Casey Newton· Host0:51
That one I'm- I like, 'cause I can still do that one.
Kevin Roose· Host0:54
[laughing] Yes. But some of them are like, "Factor this quadratic equation."
Casey Newton· Host0:59
No, I'm, I'm routinely in this situation, it happens a lot to me on, uh, Threads. I'll see, like, a link to a story I wanna read, and I'll open it, and it'll be, like, The Washington Post or something, and it'll be like, "Well, you need to log in," and in order to do that, I need to... I, I log into the Post through Google, but so now I have to log into my Google account, which has two-factor authentication.
Kevin Roose· Host1:17
Mm.
Casey Newton· Host1:18
Okay? So now I have to open up my 1Password, right? And then Google is gonna send a notification to another app that I have to go open and grab a number that I bring back, that I put in. So I go through all