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Claude.ai changed what its privacy policy says
Claude.ai (Anthropic) now says it “may use your Inputs and Outputs to train our models…unless you opt out through your account settings,” with safety-review/reported-materials exceptions.
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For information about how we collect and use personal data to develop our language models that power our Services, when we may receive and process personal data of non-users, and your choices with respect to that information, please see our Notice on Model Training.
For more information about how we collect and use personal data to develop our language models that power our Services, the steps we take to minimize the privacy impact on individuals through the training process, and your choices with respect to that information, please see our separate Notice on Model Training.
We will not use your Inputs or Outputs to train our models, unless: (1) your conversations are flagged for Trust & Safety review (in which case we may use or analyze them to improve our ability to detect and enforce our Usage Policy, including training models for use by our Trust and Safety team, consistent with Anthropic's safety mission), or (2) you've explicitly reported the materials to us (for example via our feedback mechanisms), or (3) you've otherwise explicitly opted in to the use of your Inputs and Outputs for training purposes.
We may process personal data in an aggregated or de-identified form to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, conduct research, study user behavior, and train our AI models as permitted under applicable laws. For instance:
When you submit Feedback, we disassociate Inputs and Outputs from your user ID to use them for training and improving our models.
If our systems flag Inputs or Outputs for potentially violating our Usage Policy, we disassociate the content from your user ID to train our trust and safety internal classification and generative models. However, we may re-identify the Inputs or Outputs to enforce our Usage Policy with the responsible user if necessary.
To improve the Services and conduct research (including model training). See our Notice on Model Training for more details on the data used to train our models.
After
In force from
For more information about how we collect and use personal data to develop our language models that power our Services, the steps we take to minimize the privacy impact on individuals through the training process, and your choices with respect to that information, please see our separate Non-User Privacy Policy.
To improve the Services and conduct research, including training our models; and
We may use your Inputs and Outputs to train our models and improve our Services, unless you opt out through your account settings. Even if you opt-out, we will use Inputs and Outputs for model improvement when: (1) your conversations are flagged for safety review to improve our ability to detect harmful content, enforce our policies, or advance AI safety research, or (2) you've explicitly reported the materials to us (for example via our feedback mechanisms).
We may process personal data in an aggregated or de-identified form to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, conduct research, study user behavior, and train our AI models as permitted under applicable laws. For instance:
When you submit Feedback, we disassociate Inputs and Outputs from your user ID to use them for training and improving our models.
If our systems flag Inputs or Outputs for potentially violating our Usage Policy, we disassociate the content from your user ID to train our trust and safety internal classification and generative models. However, we may re-identify the Inputs or Outputs to enforce our Usage Policy with the responsible user if necessary.
To improve the Services and conduct research (including model training). See our Non-User Privacy Policy for more details on the data used to train our models.
Other Claude.ai changes
- Claude.ai (Anthropic) added use of Materials “to develop other products and services, including training our models,” “unless you opt out of training through your account settings.” Scope change · Claude.ai, Terms of Service
- Anthropic still says it may use “Inputs and Outputs” to train “unless you opt out through your account settings”; it adds “Legitimate interests” language. New disclosure · Claude.ai, Privacy Policy
- Anthropic added that it may obtain personal data from “third party sources in order to train our models,” including feedback, flagged, or opted-in inputs and outputs. New disclosure · Claude.ai, Privacy Policy
- Anthropic's Claude.ai now uses Materials for "training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings," with feedback and safety-flagged content trained on regardless. Change of position · Claude.ai, Terms of Service