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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by klabb3 on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:00AM (#45063538)
EU or not, it baffled me that people don't see this glaring conflict of interest. AI companies both produce the model and rent out inference. In other words, you're expecting that the company that (a) desperately crave your data the most and (b) that also happen to collect large amounts of high quality data from you will simply not use it. It's like asking a child to keep your candy safe.

I'd love to live in a society where laws could effectively regulate these things. I would also like a Pony.

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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by croes on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:30AM (#45064620)
>It's like asking a child to keep your candy safe

That's why we don't hand billions of dollars to a child. Maybe we should treat AI companies similar.

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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by kossTKR on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:16AM (#45063733)
This is why we need actual regulation, and not the semi fascist monopolist corporatocracy we've evolved into now.

Its only utopian because it's become so incredibly bad.

We shouldn't expect less, we shouldn't push guilt or responsibility onto the consumer we should push for more, unless you actively want your neighbour, you mom, and 95% of the population to be in constant trouble with absolutely everything from tech to food safety, chemicals or healthcare - most people aren't rich engineers like on this forum and i don't want to research for 5 hours every time i buy something because some absolute psychopaths have removed all regulation and sensible defaults so someone can party on a yacht.

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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by frm88 on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:45AM (#45064824)
Bravo! This has to be the most coherent and well-formulated rant I have read in a longtime. Thank you!
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