It was inevitable, just like Thanos in the Marvel movie where he says that. Gen AI, no matter the promise, is coming for your data.

Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month [September 28th to opt out] to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them for training.

Put the word out. Claude who promised in every chart I saw (ok, I made a few, too) to not use data for training has flip-flopped.

This piece reassures me for my Claude use via BoodleBox:

the new data collection policy will not affect commercial, educational, or government customers, nor will API use with Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, and other commercial partners.

Read all of The Register’s piece.