Comment by cowpig

3 months ago

Since Claude and OpenAI made it clear they will be retaining all of my prompts, I have mostly stopped using them. I should probably cancel my MAX subscriptions.

Instead I'm running big open source models and they are good enough for ~90% of tasks.

The main exceptions are Deep Research (though I swear it was better when I could choose o3) and tougher coding tasks (sonnet 4.5)

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moi2388  3 months ago

Source? You can opt out of training, and delete history, do they keep the prompts somehow?!

  • cowpig  3 months ago

    1. Anthropic pushed a change to their terms where now I have to opt out or my data will be retained for 5 years and trained on. They have shown that they will change their terms, so I cannot trust them.

    2. OpenAI is run by someone who already shows he will go to great lengths to deceive and cannot be trusted, and are embroiled in a battle with the New York Times that is "forcing them" to retain all user prompts. Totally against their will.

  • astrange  3 months ago

    It's not simply "training". What's the point of training on prompts? You can't learn the answer to a question by training on the question.

    For Anthropic at least it's also opt-in not opt-out afaik.

    • visarga  3 months ago

      There is a huge point - those prompts have answers, followed by more prompts and answers. If you look at an AI answer in hindsight you can often spot if it was a good or bad response from the next messages. So you can derive a preference score, and train your preference model, then do RLHF on the base model. You also get separation (privacy protection) this way.