Comment by cowpig
4 hours 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)
Source? You can opt out of training, and delete history, do they keep the prompts somehow?!
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.
I think the prompts might actually really useful for training, especially for generating synthetic data.
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.
The NYT situation concerning data retention was resolved a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900370