If you rate a Claude response with thumbs up or down, Anthropic stores your entire related conversation and can use it for any purpose — including training — without paying you or asking permission.
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The provision establishes Anthropic's ownership and usage rights over feedback data collected through rating interactions and user submissions. This creates an operational mechanism for the service to incorporate user-generated data into model training, product improvement, or other internal purposes without contractual constraints on use or limitations on commercial application.
Every time you click thumbs up or thumbs down on a Claude response, you are triggering storage and unrestricted use of that full conversation by Anthropic for any purpose, including AI model training — even if you have previously opted out of training data collection.
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The provision establishes Anthropic's ownership and usage rights over feedback data collected through rating interactions and user submissions. This creates an operational mechanism for the service to incorporate user-generated data into model training, product improvement, or other internal purposes without contractual constraints on use or limitations on commercial application.
Every time you click thumbs up or thumbs down on a Claude response, you are triggering storage and unrestricted use of that full conversation by Anthropic for any purpose, including AI model training — even if you have previously opted out of training data collection.
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