Comment by vitalyan8184

5 hours ago

oh, I've no doubt the US government and giga corporations can get zero data retention without ten pages of fine print. the rest of us can't.

Unless you spend 5min googling and see that you can do zero retention via AWS Bedrock.

  • Yeah even the chatgpt teams subscription claims ZDR. I believe the business plan from anthropic does too.

    Of course maybe there is some fine print I haven’t read, and obviously I get the point that it may not be trustworthy.

    edit: whoops I just checked and the “business”/“teams” plans just agree not to use your data for training

> zero data retention

Zero data retention is also "trust me dude".

There is no viable way of checking they are actually doing that.

That's assuming they don't put carve-out clauses in, like Anthropic did with Fable, which means data retention is back on the cards, no exceptions.

Also don't forget a zero data retention clause is still subject to the good old "law, or court or administrative order" contract clauses. :)

To get properly close to real zero-retention in a hosted model, you would have to use one of the verifiably private AI that runs in enclaves, e.g. Tinfoil (US) or Privatemode (Germany)[2]. Yes, still not the same as running on your own hardware, but a million lightyears ahead of "zero data retention" "trust me dude" clauses.

[1]https://tinfoil.sh/ [2]https://www.privatemode.ai/

  • No I know of course, I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them when all of these companies committed the largest copyright theft in human history to build the models.

    I just wanted to know if that other person had proof or not, and I guess they didn’t. I would still rather have some semblance of an agreement than not have one at all — if you’re coding on a consumer plan you should just 100% assume anything you write with it will end up in the training set