--- title: Premium: The Hater's Guide to Anthropic | daily.dev description: A scathing critique of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, arguing that the company's 'safe AI' positioning is a calculated PR and fundraising strategy rather... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/h45bhym5i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Premium: The Hater's Guide to Anthropic | daily.dev og:description: A scathing critique of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, arguing that the company's 'safe AI' positioning is a calculated PR and fundraising strategy rather... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/h45bhym5i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/H45bhYM5i.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Premium: The Hater's Guide to Anthropic **[The Dump](https://daily.dev/sources/thedump)** · [@denisb0](https://daily.dev/denisb0) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A scathing critique of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, arguing that the company's 'safe AI' positioning is a calculated PR and fundraising strategy rather than genuine principle. The piece documents a pattern of vague, unfalsifiable predictions about AI capabilities timed to coincide with funding rounds, examines Anthropic's financial reality (losing $5.2B generating $4.5B in revenue), challenges the company's claimed 38% gross margins by arguing training costs are ongoing opex rather than one-time capex, and contends that Claude Code's economics are unsustainable. The author concludes Anthropic is no more ethical than OpenAI and that Amodei is a more media-savvy but equally dishonest operator than Sam Altman. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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