Claude AI will train on your personal conversations by default — unless you change this setting

Anthropic has made sweeping changes to how it handles its users’ data in the consumer tiers. The company behind popular AI chatbot Claude announced on Thursday that it will start training its AI on user data unless users choose to opt out by 28 September.

The AI startup also announced that it is extending the data retention policy for messages sent to Claude to five years for users who don’t opt out of AI training.

Notably, Anthropic did not use users’ messages to train its AI models in the past and the company also claimed to delete all user prompts…