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But the idea of an API is more to encourage creativity and other people/companies building products and services on or around your systems. This used to be seen as a positive as it would mean you were an important cog in other peoples products and so more users, exposure, brand awareness etc.

Anthropic do of course sell API access and you can of course use any product with it.

Compared to the heavily subsidized subscriptions, I don't think API is sold at loss.

Also why would you create a throwaway for this question? Are you trying to rage bait?

> Also why would you create a throwaway for this question? Are you trying to rage bait?

You should never question anyone's route to privacy :)

> Are you trying to rage bait?

If you have to ask, it's probably not rage bait. I'm just too lazy to come up with a username.

1:29 until you're able to push to the `main` branch.

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