Comment by furyofantares
1 year ago
You have to choose in order to use Claude, it's not the type of default where you're opted in unless you go find the setting. This blog post misrepresents this.
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.
Yeah this blog post is wrong on multiple points.
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"
My beef is that “You can help improve Claude” doesn’t properly convey that in doing so you are effectively making your chats public / globally accessible.
You're likely conflating the public/shared chats bug with "we'll use your data to train" case (the latter is what's dicussed here)
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What? You are not "effectively making your chats globally accessible".
There is no situation in which I could access your chats. If you disagree, kindly explain how I do that.
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