“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.”
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User-submitted content may be used to train Anthropic's AI models by default, and avoiding this requires an affirmative opt-out action by the user.
Interpretive note: The opt-out applies only to training; the excerpt does not make clear whether the opt-out covers all training uses or only some. The other stated purposes (provide, maintain, improve, develop other products) have no opt-out mechanism stated.
Users' submitted Materials are used for model training unless they actively opt out through account settings; no opt-out is available for other stated uses such as providing and improving the Services.
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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 Consumer Terms
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User-submitted content may be used to train Anthropic's AI models by default, and avoiding this requires an affirmative opt-out action by the user.
Users' submitted Materials are used for model training unless they actively opt out through account settings; no opt-out is available for other stated uses such as providing and improving the Services.
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