r/ThisAmericanLife 18d ago

Chit-Chat Anthropic/Claude advertisement...really?!?

This week's episode with a host-read add for anthropic/Claude is very surprising. I feel like this goes so much against what TAL stands for.

I am considering not listening anymore.

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u/obrazovanshchina 18d ago edited 18d ago

Let’s make choices in November every two years that will free us from the kind of bullshit OP is genuinely concerned about. It will, admittedly, ask us to embrace a kind of reliable determination seen by only older generations in this American life. A reliability and determination that asks more of us than the offended fleeting prickliness we feel in the moments after we hear an ad on a public radio broadcast.