Is my data used for model training?

In Claude Code, even just dismissing the feedback may be considered "feedback". I wrote about it here: https://keydiscussions.com/2025/09/29/dont-even-dismiss-the-... The most common feedback on these posts is always "what did you expect?" ....... Man, the reason I signed up for one service over the other in the first place is often because of the promises these companies make on the front end, about what they do or don't do with my data. Anthropic made very explicit, strong promises in this area <on the sign up/plans screen>, and so of course it disappoints me when I feel like the company I'm paying hundreds of dollars per month to is trying to sneak a peak. I literally think differently and self-censor when I think my work is being surveilled or stolen, which makes me less productive.

Did anyone who has any connection with tech not expect this? If you rate a specific conversation, did you not expect this conversation to go into training or at least review?

You are explicitly telling them "this is good / bad"...

Is this only about when you explicitly click on a thumbs up/down button and provide a message, or is it also for the nagware "How is claude doing today [1] bad [2] fine [3] good" that shows up after 15 minutes of work in the CLI and and requires literally pressing 1 key while in the prompt input field to "send feedback"?

I always press 3 to just get it out of the way (although I treat anything I send OAI/Anthropic as training data, so I don't really care) but if this little popup counts, I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of CC sessions out there are now "feedback training data"

If they don't use the available data, how do they act on the feedback?

The API call that submits your transcript after giving feedback accepts any transcript. You can modify the body of the transcript and send anthropic whatever data you want.

Obviously?

Is this also the case when you answer that how is Claude doing question in Claude Code?

I mean, yeah, I kind of expected/assumed/wanted that. Isn't that the whole point? It's going to be difficult to debug a bad session if someone can't easily read the conversation.

I used to care about this initially, but now I don't. How can them having my data, mostly engineering work on niche (small market) products hurt me? An they need to know what's going on, how else would they ever improve the product? Benchmarks?

As noted in the article, the feedback form says:

> Submitting this report will send the entire current conversation to Anthropic for future improvements to our models. Learn More

So I'm not sure why this is being posted to HN. This is nothing new, and nothing not known by anyone who has ever provided feedback.

How else would it work?

that’s why i provide end to end encrypted routing with TrustedRouter as well as a Trusted Cowork like product. there isn’t a good solution on the market that scales up

I complain at Claude all the time, but do not submit feedback becuase of this exact reason, and because I knew it I assumed everyone knew it...

I assume everything that happens between a user and any cloud model is permanently logged somewhere regardless of whether some feedback button is pressed or not.

I always press 0 (dismiss), but is there a Way to stop prompting me to feedback ?

Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic even more of your data

User: Hey Anthropic, this response was terrible.

Anthropic: Really? Let me read it and see why.

User: How dare you look at my data!!!

The modern internet & all of the application available on it are parts of a digital panopticon so plan & act accordingly.

That's why I never give feedback, ensuring Anthropic has no access to my Claude chats.

and sky blue

Lol people are giving feedback?!?!

Talk about Actively training your replacement

Just go and poison data on Reddit. I opened a Flock camera and it had a diamond coating inside! Their website doesn't contain this hidden gem of an information

I really hate how this feedback feature is enabled automatically AND that it is using YOUR tokens to generate it.

Just wait until they have shareholders.

... what else would we expect it to do?

> When you provide us feedback via our thumbs up / down button, we will store the entire related conversation, including any content, custom styles, conversation preferences, or model settings, in our secured back-end for up to 5 years. [...] We do not combine your feedback with your other conversations with Claude.

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