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Andy Masley

@andymasley
10 posts
2026-02-05
I gotta stand up for OpenAI here, the ads aren't integrated into the answers themselves. There's this new popular misconception that AI companies are selling you things by changing the text, but what's actually happening is there's a little separate banner that's clearly an ad.
2026-02-05 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...

I gotta stand up for OpenAI here, the ads aren't integrated into the answers themselves. There's this new popular misconception that AI companies are selling you things by changing the text, but what's actually happening is there's a little separate banner that's clearly an ad.
2026-02-05 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers

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

2026-02-04
I gotta stand up for OpenAI here, the ads aren't integrated into the answers themselves. There's this new popular misconception that AI companies are selling you things by changing the text, but what's actually happening is there's a little separate banner that's clearly an ad.
2026-02-04 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers

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

2026-01-23
Trying the Gemini SAT practice and I forgot how easy I had it as a kid [image]
2026-01-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers

Prepping for the SAT is nobody's idea of fun, but Google aims to make it less stressful with AI.  The company announced that it's …

2026-01-22
Trying the Gemini SAT practice and I forgot how easy I had it as a kid [image]
2026-01-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers

Prepping for the SAT is nobody's idea of fun, but Google aims to make it less stressful with AI.  The company announced that it's …

2026-01-20
It's crazy how this is better than 95% of popular AI commentary but unfortunately imo still incorrect. Seems like he's thinking about it a ton tho
2026-01-20 View on X
Variety

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones

2026-01-19
It's crazy how this is better than 95% of popular AI commentary but unfortunately imo still incorrect. Seems like he's thinking about it a ton tho
2026-01-19 View on X
Variety

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck recently appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” to promote their new Netflix film “The Rip,” …

2025-11-16
I did some quick digging on the Waymo cat statistics https://andymasley.substack.com/ ... [image]
2025-11-16 View on X
New York Times

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern

At Delirium, a dive bar in San Francisco's Mission District, the décor is dark, the drinks are strong, and the emotions are raw.

2025-05-07
Was really excited to get a shoutout and summary from Hannah Ritchie, a personal climate comms hero www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ carbon-foo...
2025-05-07 View on X
Sustainability

A look at the energy consumption impact of daily ChatGPT use, as an analysis finds LLM usage is still a rounding error on a person's total electricity footprint

Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.  —  A couple of months ago I wrote an article looking at the energy use of artificial intelligence.

2025-01-03
Net Neutrality was one of my first “Oh my entire media environment got this decisively completely wrong” moments, was pretty disorienting. Literally every source I was reading was going into so much detail about how ending Net Neutrality was going to end the good internet.
2025-01-03 View on X
Reuters

A US appeals court rules the FCC did not have legal authority to reinstate net neutrality rules; incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr opposed the 2024 reinstatement

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.