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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters
99 laurex 22 8/30/2025, 5:12:06 PM natesnewsletter.substack.com ↗
Erm, no it's not. The lesson is to (a) stop giving money to companies that abuse your privacy and (b) advocate for laws which make privacy the default.
I haven't seen what the screen for new users looks like, perhaps it "nudge"s you in the direction they want by starting the UI with it checked and you have to check it off. That is what the popup for existing users looks like from Anthropic's linked blog post. That post says they require you to choose when signing up and that existing users have to choose in order to keep using Claude. In Claude Code I had to choose and it was just a straight question in the terminal.
I think the nudge-style defaults are worth criticism but you lose me when your article makes false implications.
The new user prompt looks the same as far as I can tell, defaults to on, and uses the somewhat oblique phrasing "You can help improve Claude"
There is no situation in which I could access your chats. If you disagree, kindly explain how I do that.
You are dead wrong here. Let me explain.
Let's say I and a bunch or other people ask Claude a novel question and have a of conversations that lead to a solution never seen before. Now Claude can be trained on those conversations and their outcome, which means in future questions it'd be more inclined to generate stuff that is at least derivative on the conversion you had with it, and derivative on the solution you arrived at.
Which is exactly what the OP hints at.
Not that ‘novel’ then, is it?
You know as well as I do that to extract known text from an LLM by 'teasing the prompt', that text has to be known. See: the NYT's lawsuit. [0]
So if you don't know the text of my 'novel question', how do you suggest extracting it?
[0]: https://kagi.com/search?q=nyt+lawsuit+openai&r=au&sh=-NNFTwM...
their customer service (or total lack thereof) burned me into a cancellation before hand, the policy changes would have probably had a similar effect. Shame because I love the product (claude-code) -- oh well, the behavior is going to kick up a lot of alternatives soon I bet.
Somebody (tm) will probably turn this against Anthropic and use Claude Code to recreate an open source Claude Code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062683
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062738
If true, someone should grab a quick screencap vid of the dark pattern.
"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.
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.
> So here's my advice: Treat every AI tool like a rental car. Inspect it every time you pick it up.
Disappointed in Anthropic - especially the 5 year retention, regardless of how you opt.