One of the market’s fastest-growing artificial intelligence (AI) startups just terminated one of its initiatives shortly after launching it.
Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, users have marveled at the chatbot’s writing ability, often asking it to break down technical topics. Students quickly seized on these new tools and began using them to write their academic papers, launching an ongoing debate that still has no clear resolution.
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As the technology sector’s new growth market has evolved, Anthropic has emerged as one of its leading startups, known primarily for its Claud AI model, a popular choice in the tech community. But a recent revelation from the company raises questions about the future of AI as a tool for writing.
Early in June 2025, Anthropic quickly launched an initiative intended to demonstrate its models’ writing abilities, only to abruptly cease it one week later.
Anthropic has opted to scrap its AI blog initiative.
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The AI blog that caught readers’ attention is already gone
Many people outside the tech community likely missed that Anthropic kicked off June 2025 with the launch of Claude Explains, a blog with posts written by its AI models. It featured pieces that instructed readers on how to “Simplify complex codebases with Claude” and similar highly technical topics tied to AI.
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After only a week of operation, though, Anthropic has opted to scrap the AI blog initiative, quietly removing it from its webpage over the weekend of June 8. Users who click on its former address are now directed back to the company’s home page, which does not mention the former blog.
According to TechCrunch, while AI models did the writing, human editors still oversaw its posts for accuracy, described as “subject matter experts and editorial teams.”
A spokesperson for the company is quoted as saying, “[The blog] is an early example of how teams can use AI to augment their work and provide greater value to their users. Rather than replacing human expertise, we’re showing how AI can amplify what subject matter experts can accomplish.”
However, now the entire project appears to have ended as quickly as it began, indicating that Anthropic decided the results produced by the blog simply did not justify the resources required to maintain it. But one expert has laid out some reasons why the company likely opted for this course of action.
In an article on LinkedIn, AI 4 Writers owner Thomas Testi discussed the early demise of Claude Explains, highlighting a lack of transparency as a factor that worked against it.
“A big problem with Claude Explains was that it was really hard to understand,” he states. “The blog posts failed to distinguish AI-generated content from human-edited content clearly for readers. In an era where digital audiences are increasingly skeptical of AI-generated media, this absence of disclosure was a breach of trust.”
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Despite Anthropic’s attempts to frame Claude Explains as a resource for AI enthusiasts, Testi also notes that many social media users saw it as a “thinly veiled attempt to automate content marketing,” an accurate characterization, in his view.
Anthropic may have killed the blog out of caution
Shortly before the launch of Clade Explains, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei caught many people’s attention when he predicted that AI would lead to a “bloodbath” for white-collar workers, particularly for those in early career stages.
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However, based on the decision made by his team to terminate its AI blog, it seems that Anthropic doesn’t have the technology to completely replace technical writers and bloggers, at least not yet. Additionally, despite its initial framing as a blog written by AI, Claude Explains’ content still had oversight from human editors.
There is also the possibility that Anthropic might have opted against its AI blogging initiative due to the tendency of AI models to make false claims. According to a recent report from the MIT Sloan School of Management:
“The technology behind generative AI tools isn’t designed to differentiate between what’s true and what’s not true. Even if generative AI models were trained solely on accurate data, their generative nature would mean they could still produce new, potentially inaccurate content by combining patterns in unexpected ways.”
The fact that Anthropic has not addressed its decision to terminate the blog suggests it wants to move on quickly, rather than issuing a statement.
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