Anthropic's AI is Writing Its Own Blog - Oh Wait. No It's Not (techcrunch.com)
(Saturday June 07, 2025 @04:59PM (EditorDavid)
from the Daisy-Daisy dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/0412244/anthropics-ai-is-writing-its-own-blog---oh-wait-no-its-not
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/anthropics-ai-is-writing-its-own-blog-with-human-oversight/
"Everyone has a blog these days, even Claude," Anthropic [1]wrote this week on a page titled "Claude Explains ."
"Welcome to the small corner of the Anthropic universe where Claude is writing on every topic under the sun".
Not any more. After blog posts titled "Improve code maintainability with Claude" and "Rapidly develop web applications with Claude" — Anthropic suddenly removed the whole page sometime after Wednesday. But TechCrunch explains [2]the whole thing was always less than it seemed , and "One might be easily misled into thinking that Claude is responsible for the blog's copy end-to-end."
> According to a spokesperson, the blog is overseen by Anthropic's "subject matter experts and editorial teams," who "enhance" Claude's drafts with "insights, practical examples, and [...] contextual knowledge."
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> "This isn't just vanilla Claude output — the editorial process requires human expertise and goes through iterations," the spokesperson said. "From a technical perspective, Claude Explains shows a collaborative approach where Claude [creates] educational content, and our team reviews, refines, and enhances it...." Anthropic says it sees Claude Explains as a "demonstration of how human expertise and AI capabilities can work together," starting with educational resources. "Claude Explains is an early example of how teams can use AI to augment their work and provide greater value to their users," the spokesperson said. "Rather than replacing human expertise, we're showing how AI can amplify what subject matter experts can accomplish [...] We plan to cover topics ranging from creative writing to data analysis to business strategy...."
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> The Anthropic spokesperson noted that the company is still hiring across marketing, content, and editorial, and "many other fields that involve writing," despite the company's dip into AI-powered blog drafting. Take that for what you will.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250604084221/https://www.anthropic.com/claude-explains?986b7aa9_page=2
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/anthropics-ai-is-writing-its-own-blog-with-human-oversight/
"Welcome to the small corner of the Anthropic universe where Claude is writing on every topic under the sun".
Not any more. After blog posts titled "Improve code maintainability with Claude" and "Rapidly develop web applications with Claude" — Anthropic suddenly removed the whole page sometime after Wednesday. But TechCrunch explains [2]the whole thing was always less than it seemed , and "One might be easily misled into thinking that Claude is responsible for the blog's copy end-to-end."
> According to a spokesperson, the blog is overseen by Anthropic's "subject matter experts and editorial teams," who "enhance" Claude's drafts with "insights, practical examples, and [...] contextual knowledge."
>
> "This isn't just vanilla Claude output — the editorial process requires human expertise and goes through iterations," the spokesperson said. "From a technical perspective, Claude Explains shows a collaborative approach where Claude [creates] educational content, and our team reviews, refines, and enhances it...." Anthropic says it sees Claude Explains as a "demonstration of how human expertise and AI capabilities can work together," starting with educational resources. "Claude Explains is an early example of how teams can use AI to augment their work and provide greater value to their users," the spokesperson said. "Rather than replacing human expertise, we're showing how AI can amplify what subject matter experts can accomplish [...] We plan to cover topics ranging from creative writing to data analysis to business strategy...."
>
> The Anthropic spokesperson noted that the company is still hiring across marketing, content, and editorial, and "many other fields that involve writing," despite the company's dip into AI-powered blog drafting. Take that for what you will.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250604084221/https://www.anthropic.com/claude-explains?986b7aa9_page=2
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/anthropics-ai-is-writing-its-own-blog-with-human-oversight/
Let me get this straight (Score:3)
by Calydor ( 739835 )
So they scraped the internet, gobbling up educational materials in the process.
Then they told their AI to write educational materials based on the educational materials they scraped up.
THEN they had humans edit those new educational materials to, presumably, be more like the original educational materials.
And we spent insane amounts of electricity and water to do this?
The worst job ever (Score:4, Funny)
May very well be the marketing person whose job it is to pretend that they're job has been replaced by AI.