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Claude.ai changed what its terms of service says
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.
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Removed Added. Only the sentences about training are shown, not the whole document.
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Our use of Materials.** We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services. We will not train our models on any Materials that are not publicly available, except in two circumstances:
1. If you provide Feedback to us (through the Services or otherwise) regarding any Materials, we may use that Feedback in accordance with Section 5 (Feedback). 2. If your Materials are flagged for trust and safety review, we may use or analyze those Materials to improve our ability to detect and enforce Acceptable Use Policy violations, including training models for use by our trust and safety team, consistent with Anthropic's safety mission.
After
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Our use of Materials.** We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the 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.
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
- 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. Change of position · Claude.ai, Privacy Policy