Anthropic Accused of Hyping Models While Restricting Usage
airkatakana · x · 2026-07-18
Users are complaining about Anthropic's contradictory strategy: on one hand, they use rate limits and recommendations (like suggesting Sonnet over Opus and capping advanced model usage) to "persuade" users to rely less on the model's intelligence; on the other hand, they heavily market just how powerful and terrifying their smartest models are.
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