"1. Help improve Claude by allowing us to use your chats and coding sessions to improve our models
With your permission, we will use your chats and coding sessions to train and improve our AI models. If you accept the updated Consumer Terms before September 28, your preference takes effect immediately.
If you choose to allow us to use your data for model training, it helps us:
Improve our AI models and make Claude more helpful and accurate for everyone
Develop more robust safeguards to help prevent misuse of Claude
We will only use chats and coding sessions you initiate or resume after you give permission. You can change your preference anytime in your Privacy Settings."
The only way to interpret this validly is that it is opt-in.
But it's LITERALLY opt out.
"Help improve Claude
Allow the use of your chats and coding sessions to train and improve Anthropic AI models."
You actually meant to say “this is the option that is given focus when the user is prompted to make a decision of whether to share data or not”, right?
Because unless they changed the UI again, that’s what happens: you get prompted to make a decision, with the “enable” option given focus. Which means that this is still literally opt-in. It’s an icky, dark pattern (IMO) to give the “enable” option focus when prompted, but that doesn’t make it any less opt-in.
I don't remember being given this option either (as the sibling said). I do remember a window popping up at some point, but it was either one that popped up while I was clicking/typing elsewhere, and the typing made it disappear, or it was a window that showed up as a "here's what's new" modal that only had one button.
Either way, they definitely didn't get my informed consent, and I'm someone who reads all the update modals because I'm interested in their updates.
"1. Help improve Claude by allowing us to use your chats and coding sessions to improve our models
With your permission, we will use your chats and coding sessions to train and improve our AI models. If you accept the updated Consumer Terms before September 28, your preference takes effect immediately.
If you choose to allow us to use your data for model training, it helps us:
We will only use chats and coding sessions you initiate or resume after you give permission. You can change your preference anytime in your Privacy Settings."The only way to interpret this validly is that it is opt-in.
But it's LITERALLY opt out.
"Help improve Claude
Allow the use of your chats and coding sessions to train and improve Anthropic AI models."
This is defaulted to toggling on.
This should not be legal.