Anthropic, a company behind the AI model Claude, has shut down its blog “Claude Explains” just one week after it was profiled by TechCrunch. The blog aimed to showcase Claude’s writing abilities on technical topics and combine customer requests with marketing goals.
Initially, Claude Explains featured posts edited for accuracy by humans, focusing on topics like simplifying complex codebases. However, the blog’s content was marred by a lack of transparency about the role of AI-generated copy. This led to criticism from users who felt it resembled an attempt to automate content marketing.
The short-lived blog generated over 24 links before its shutdown, and Anthropic might have grown wary of implying that Claude performs better at writing tasks than its capabilities justify. The company had touted Claude Explains as a demonstration of how human expertise and AI can work together, but ultimately decided not to pursue the initiative further.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/anthropics-ai-generated-blog-dies-an-early-death