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Anthropic Use of Materials to Improve Services and Train Models

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Key Facts

May Anthropic use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services?
Anthropic may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training its models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings.
May Anthropic use Materials to develop other products and services?
Anthropic may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training its models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings.
May Anthropic use Materials for training its models unless you opt out?
Anthropic may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training its models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Without opting out, your Materials may be used to train Anthropic's AI models; the opt-out mechanism places the burden on the user to act.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 3333 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your submitted Materials may be used for model training by default; you must affirmatively opt out through account settings to prevent this use.

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We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings.

Excerpt from Anthropic's API Terms

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
BIPA
Illinois, USA
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Colorado AI Act
US-CO
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
ePrivacy Directive
European Union
EU AI Act - High Risk Provisions
EU
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
Anthropic API Terms
Entity
Anthropic
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 8, 2026
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-051203
Document ID
CA-D-00644
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
76b3ec7295fe5abd7a14cd2bc45c46e3b7dd9a66ea991a2455e2ef95f735e820
Analysis generated
May 8, 2026 10:56 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Anthropic
Document: Anthropic API Terms
Record ID: CA-P-051203
Captured: 2026-05-08 10:56:14 UTC
SHA-256: 76b3ec7295fe5abd…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/anthropic/anthropic-api-terms/provision/CA-P-051203/anthropic-use-of-materials-to-improve-services-and-train-models/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Anthropic's Anthropic Use of Materials to Improve Services and Train Models clause do?

Without opting out, your Materials may be used to train Anthropic's AI models; the opt-out mechanism places the burden on the user to act.

How does this clause affect you?

Your submitted Materials may be used for model training by default; you must affirmatively opt out through account settings to prevent this use.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 279 platforms. See the full comparison.

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