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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters


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Here's what changed: Previously, Claude didn't train on consumer chat data without your explicit thumbs up or down. The reaction across Reddit and tech forums has been predictably negative - privacy advocates are disappointed, users feel blindsided, and everyone's comparing this to the same moves OpenAI and others have made. Anthropic frames this as improving AI safety and model capabilities - they need real-world data to make Claude better at coding, reasoning, whatever.

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