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"When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command."

So I can opt out of training, but they still save the conversation? Why can't they just not use my data when I pay for things. I am tired of paying, and then them stealing my information. Tell you what, create a free tier that harvests data as the cost of the service. If you pay, no data harvesting.



> So I can opt out of training

Even that is debatable. There are a lot of weasel words in their text. At most they're saying "we're not training foundation models on your data", which is not to say "we're not training reward models" or "we're not testing our other-data models on your data" and so on.

I guess the safest way to view this is to consider anything you send them as potentially in the next LLMs, for better or worse.


> When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback

When they ask "How is Claude doing this session?", that appears to be a sneaky way for them to harvest the current conversation based on the terms-of-service clause you pointed out.


I have this same suspicion. Worse, there’s no way to opt out of giving a response.


If you turn off "Help improve Claude" you will never get this prompt (I never do).

https://claude.ai/settings/data-privacy-controls


That should be how this works, but unfortunately not. I have that toggle switched off, but I still regularly get this prompt.


i have that option switched off but still got the score card 1 to 5 yesterday while working on some code.


Not your model, not your code (in their mind). Self host your models or enjoy folks trying to get the LLM to regurgitate your private codebase.


This enables the /resume command that lets you start mid-conversation again.

Storing the data is not the same as stealing. It's helpful for many use cases.

I suppose they should have a way to delete conversations though.


That's not just them saving it locally to like `~/.claude/conversations`? Feels weird if all conversations are uploaded to the cloud + retained forever.


Ooo - good question. I'm unsure on this one.


The conversation is stored locally. If you run Claude on two computers and try /resume, it won’t find the other sessions.


They are downloaded from the cloud and just never deleted.




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