Comment by copilot_king
19 hours ago
IMO this strategy seems inspired by TikTok's approach for retaining new uploaders.
TikTok used to give new uploaders a visibility boost (i.e., an inflated number of likes and comments) on their first couple of uploads, to get them hooked on the the service.
In Anthropic/Claude's case, the strategy is (allegedly) to give new users access to the premium models on sign-up, and then increasingly cut the product with output from cheaper models.
Of course, your suggestion (better service for users who know how to speak Proper English) would be the cherry on top of this strategy.
From what I've seen on HackerNews, Anthropic is all-in on social media manipulation and social engineering, so I suspect that your assumption holds water.
I would actually assume a little more sophistication. For each user, a measure of "Are they convinced that AI is great". Then, you weaponize your compute to have the maximum social impact. If somebody has a large following (many edges on the social graph), and theyre skeptical of AI tech, inject the expensive but effective models directly into their veins. Let them taste the joy. Then start watering down their dose, and move onto the next person in the graph, again maximizing for net social impact. Language may not even be a consideration