Hey, remember when Anthropic tried to make Claude a blogger?
Published on 10 December 2025
Remember "Claude Explains"? Anthropic's pretentious attempt to make their LLM a blogger lasted less than a week. Lets look at how they nuked the project the same week Reddit sued them for aggressive scraping.
It feels like a fever dream now, but does anyone else remember "Claude Explains"?
Back in June, for a very brief and incredibly pretentious window of time, Anthropic decided their LLM needed a personal blog. They pitched it as a profound "collaboration" between human editors and digital intelligence. The idea was to give Claude a platform to muse on the nature of existence, helpfulness and its own "constitutional" design.
If you missed it, count yourself lucky. The execution was insufferable.
The tone was pure moralising. It read like a first-year philosophy student lecturing you on ethics, only this student was a predictive text algorithm owned by a multi-billion dollar corporation. It was peak "San Francisco Safety Theatre" and acted as if a chatbot is a thoughtful, sentient partner rather than a statistical model designed to predict the next token.
The funniest detail was the "Editor's Note" attached to these posts. They freely admitted that humans were heavily involved in curating and polishing the text. Even Anthropic realised that an LLM left to generate content unsupervised produces pointless garbage. They had to manually intervene to stop their own "genius" AI from sounding like a boring robot, all while selling the illusion of a soulful machine.
But the most telling part is how quickly it died.
Anthropic quietly nuked the entire project from the internet around June 10th. If you try to find those "thoughtful" musings now, you are bounced straight back to their homepage. They claimed it was just a limited pilot, but the timing tells a much dirtier story.
The Timeline of Hypocrisy:
Let’s look at the dates.
Early June: "Claude Explains" is live, posting smug essays about how deeply it cares about "safety" and "respecting users".
June 4th:Reddit officially files a lawsuit against Anthropic.
While Claude was busy blogging about its high moral standards, Anthropic’s web crawlers were allegedly hammering Reddit’s servers into the ground. As I covered previously, Reddit accused them of "industrial-scale" scraping and ignoring standard protocols to the point of acting like a DDOS attack.
The contrast was hilarious. On the front end you have this performative, delicate "AI safety" blog, but look slightly closer and you see the digital parasites underneath. Yes, people. There is your GenAI B-Corp white knight in stolen data armour.
Arrogance is annoying enough when you are the undisputed king, but let’s be honest: were they ever?
Sure, they held the title for "creative writing" for about five minutes ($1.5B worth of it), but that was it. Their multimodal capabilities are a joke compared to the competition. If you aren't a developer using Claude Code, they are functionally irrelevant. Yet they still carry on with this nauseating pretence that they are a "Public Benefit" charity doing us all a favour.
✅ The Verdict
The reality is that the only field where Anthropic is truly State of the Art is sanctimony.
"Claude Explains" was the mask slipping. It showed us that their main talent isn't technology; it is the ability to lecture us while picking our pockets. The recent billion-dollar settlement for copyright theft and the Reddit debacle proved what lies beneath that smug exterior. They are just another tech company breaking things and stealing content to feed the machine.
They scrubbed the blog, but the internet never forgets. It is a shame they cancelled it so soon, honestly. I was really looking forward to the next post: "Claude Explains: How to wire $1.5 billion to a class-action settlement fund without technically admitting you stole everything."