Anthropic can use your conversations with Claude, including what you type and what Claude responds, to train its AI models by default. You can turn this off in settings, but your conversations can still be used for training if you give feedback (like thumbs up/down) or if your content is flagged for a safety review.
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This provision means that even users who opt out of training cannot fully prevent their conversation data from being used in AI model development under certain circumstances, which has implications for personal data shared in conversations.
Your conversation content, including sensitive personal information you may share, can be used to train Anthropic's AI models by default, and opting out does not cover situations where you submit feedback or your content triggers a safety review.
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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. Even if you opt out, we will use Materials for model training when: (1) you provide Feedback to us regarding any Materials, or (2) your Materials are flagged for safety review to improve our ability to detect harmful content, enforce our policies, or advance our safety research.Excerpt from Anthropic's Claude.ai Terms of Service
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This provision means that even users who opt out of training cannot fully prevent their conversation data from being used in AI model development under certain circumstances, which has implications for personal data shared in conversations.
Your conversation content, including sensitive personal information you may share, can be used to train Anthropic's AI models by default, and opting out does not cover situations where you submit feedback or your content triggers a safety review.
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