User admits deliberately burning Claude's free tier to hurt Anthropic's investor numbers
justlikemedics · reddit · 2026-09-09
A Reddit user "confesses" they now use claude.ai's free tier as much as possible—switching from ChatGPT—specifically to inflate Anthropic's free inference costs ahead of numbers shown to investors. They argue it's unfair that OpenAI bears hundreds of millions of free users while Anthropic "swims" in enterprise spend. The post asks whether others share such intent against the labs.
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