> I pretty sure OpenAI and Anthropic are doing the same or worse.
No they're not. It would end both companies if they were ever found to be doing that.
Their terms are clear - if you use the coding plans they can[0] train in return. Enterprise and API, absolutely not.
The argument here is that with the Chinese labs you have zero legal recourse.
[0] opt-in, thanks
I would think they are not but Alex Karp CEO of Palantir seems to imply that they are:
https://youtu.be/0A3sGymV6kY?si=ti7uSZtYqJ3vKpGM
I found it a little shocking TBH
>> No they're not. It would end both companies if they were ever found to be doing that. Their terms are clear - The argument here is that with the Chinese labs you have zero legal recourse.
Their terms are not worth shit considering they are reselling you stolen copyrighted data. Even in they terms they started clearly say they retain your data for "safety reasons" for however long they want. Perhaps you didn't watch the space with Anthropic going back and forth with ToS updates(we retain your data for 30 days...stike that and add 30 days or more or no or ..whatever) like my own alpha website.
> Even in they terms they started clearly say they retain your data for "safety reasons" for however long they want.
The discussion was about training, not data retention. Two very different concerns.
And if you're a decent sized customer, most providers have a route to not even retaining the data for safety/security reasons. The reason Anthropic had issues is because they do have a path to "no data storage" for Sonnet/Opus, but not for Fable. Which is why at work we have access to the former, but not the latter.
There is an enormous difference between:
* Exploiting ambiguity around fair use at a large scale before the law catches up and then jointly lobbying with your competition to make sure your interpretation of the law becomes reality.
* Explicitly signing a contract with enterprises to respect their IP and then proceeding to break that contract with your own customers.
The former is firmly in the gray area of legality and doesn't directly hurt your own customers. The latter is both an unambiguous contract violation and a flagrant attack on your own customers' most valuable asset.
retention for 'safety' -> AI race as national security -> training on your data for 'national security' aka safety
It's simple mental calisthenics. If you are handing an organization whose entire business model is built on stealing data with spurious reasoning, what do you actually expect they will do? Don't be a fool.
I'd like to see you try using mental calisthenics against a well-funded legal department. Let me know what the judge says.
Anthropic paid a large settlement for the copyrighted data they pirated. So far, US courts have found that it's perfectly fine to train AIs on copyrighted data for which you have legal access.
> if you use the coding plans they train in return.
No, you have to opt-in to that. There's a privacy toggle on account settings.
Are we talking about the company sending back private information through its client to « fight » model distillation?
Yes.
Enterprise contracts are checked and agreed by lawyers. The contract states no training.
If the provider fucks up, there are actual monetary damages defined for breach of contract.
It's an unenforceable clause. The affected party has no means to prove that a breach has happened.
Anthropic constantly uses dark patterns to steal training data from customers (like the “how is claude doing” spam, data retention loosening when the safeguards false positive, etc).
How is that a dark pattern? What is the light pattern for getting feedback from users?
they train on your requests by paraphrasing them (which means rewriting them but keeping all the saliency) and removing their association with you
i don't know why this is so controversial, their terms are written to perfectly fit this training regime
if you are using bedrock, until very recently, they didn't see your requests and could not paraphrase. but too many people were using bedrock for too much stuff they wanted to see. so that's why the terms for bedrock changed for fable 5. this was the core of the palantir / defense dept drama with anthropic.
lmao, wasn't xAI caught doing this recently? moreover at least moonshot is being honest about it.