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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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Re: Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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Except LLMs aren't a fundamental or core technology, they're an amusing party trick with some really enthusiastic marketers. We don't need them.

I’d say they’re a fundamental technology by now. Imagine how many people rely on them. And I’ve seen some heavy reliance.

I’ve also seen heavy reliance on opioids and that didn’t turn out well.

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Opt-in would be much better, of course. To put it in perspective: google won't even give you an option to opt out. If you pay for Gemini as a private user and not as a corporation, you are fair game for google. Now, neither option is good. But one is still much worse.

Agree. Out of the available paid cloud providers, I only chose to work with Claude Code because of the data privacy policy. This isn’t a welcome move but still usable. Thankfully the open source models are not far behind with Qwen 3 coder etc.

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Publishing something is considered by most to be sufficient consent for it to be not considered private. I realize there's a whole legal quagmire here involved with intellectual "property" and what counts as "derivative work", but that's a whole separate (and dubiously useful) part of the law.

That is definitely normally true but I feel like the scale and LLM usage turns it into a different problem. If you can use all of the content of stack overflow to create a “derivative work” that replaces stack overflow, and causes it to lose tons of revenue, is it really a derivative work? I’m pretty sure solution sites like chegg don’t include the actual questions for that reason. The solutions to the questions are…

Replacing stack overflow has no bearing on the definition of "derivative"

Re: Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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Opt-in would be much better, of course. To put it in perspective: google won't even give you an option to opt out. If you pay for Gemini as a private user and not as a corporation, you are fair game for google. Now, neither option is good. But one is still much worse.

Gemini allows you to opt out, but disables chat history if you do so

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Have Anthropic ever written clearly exactly about what training datasets they use? Like a list of everything included? AFAIK, all the providers/labs are kind of tightly lipped about this, so I think it's safe to assume they've slurped up all data they've come across via multiple methodologies, "private" or not.

Look at the suits against them they list it there

Are there complete lists in the suits? Last time I skimmed them, they contained allegations of sources, and some admissions like The Pile, LibGen, Books3, PiLiMi, scanned books, web scrapes and some other sources I don't remember, but AFAIK there isn't any complete inventory of training datasets they used.

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#226

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>But the question was "why trust a company and not the government?" The post you were replying to simply said the behavior of this administration made them care more about this issue, not that they trusted companies more than the government. That statement is not even implied in anyway in the comment you responded to? The fact is whereas in the past it would be expected that the government could regulate the brutal a…

The comment I responded to said "Trusting companies more than the government always feels strange. It's something I can't grasp."

You're right, my bad. I meant the original context of the grandparent

Re: Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

#228
It's obvious this was going to happen. If you ever used any cloud AI model without acknowledging that at some point your data might be leaked (in one way or another) it's on you, not on them.

As some other user put it: "big corp changes policy and breaks promises, how shocking"

Re: Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

#229

Why are we linking to Perplexity.ai AI-generated slop summaries of other news articles instead of the actual announcement? Reading the actual announcement is more clear : https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms Some important points: An in-app notification pop-up will alert you to the change. You can opt out in the pop up. I was able to opt out right now by going to the Privacy section of Setting…

As long as you can opt-out it doesn't bother me much. Though it does make me wonder those third party clients that people subscribe to e.g. JetBrains AI, Zed, and others that use Claude and other Anthropic models, do they opt-in for you? Because that would be bad. I would strongly argue that API clients should NEVER be opted in for these sorts of things, and it should be like this industry wide.

You can opt out until September 28th. After that day all Claude usage will be under the new terms and conditions
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