alt Hacker NewsIn the case of Gmail that was fake scarcity.
In the case of Anthropic is fake availability.
Sam Altman explained the idea is to scale the thing up, and see what happens.
He hadn't claimed to offer a solution to the supply problem that would unfold.
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iainmerrick • yesterday at 5:48 PM
Are you mixing up Anthropic and OpenAI here?
Are you sure it was fake scarcity for Gmail? IIRC they did it because they were worried about systems falling over if it grew too fast, and discovered the marketing benefits as a side effect.