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If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

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439 points diggan | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source
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internet2000 ◴[29 Aug 25 12:59 UTC] No.45063535[source]▶
I’m fine with that.
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dudefeliciano ◴[29 Aug 25 13:46 UTC] No.45064069[source]▶
you are fine with paying, 20, 90 or 200 euros a month AND having your data mined? i must be getting old...
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bethekidyouwant ◴[29 Aug 25 14:52 UTC] No.45064931[source]▶
what are you doing with the data? What is your legacy going to be other than the data that you leave to be mined? Do you just not want something else to benefit from something that has no benefit to you? If so, why?
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dudefeliciano ◴[29 Aug 25 15:33 UTC] No.45065451[source]▶
There is a myriad of reasons i may not want my data to be used. Maybe I am working on proprietary systems, maybe I am using Claude as a psychotherapist, maybe I use it as a tax advisor, the list goes on. Is it unrealistic to think that data may be extrapolated and connected to me in the future?
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1. godshatter ◴[29 Aug 25 19:04 UTC] No.45068090[source]▶
Use gpt4all or one of the other locally-hosted AI chatbots. Download a model and see if it works for you. It won't be as good as the latest models out there presumably, but at least you're not sending any chat data anywhere.
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2. dudefeliciano ◴[29 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.45068233[source]▶
I'm really disheartened by all this shrugging of shoulders for a company mining user data. On hackernews... Anthropic initally positioned itself as a company with privacy and data protection as a priority, and had a real chance to claim moral high ground compared to its competitors.
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3. godshatter ◴[29 Aug 25 21:01 UTC] No.45069338[source]▶
I'm not shrugging my shoulders about this. I already don't use online LLMs for anything important because of privacy concerns already (i.e. I assume anything that lands on their server is fair game for them to do what they like with it). If you do have privacy concerns about your data, host it locally. I have played around with self-hosted LLMs and they work for what I need, which is mostly playing around with them for entertainment.

I'm careful about what data of mine lands on someone else's server, so I'm not a fan of this even without the dark patterns.