--- title: Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data | daily.dev description: Anthropic does not use inputs or outputs from its commercial products to train models by default. This covers Claude for Work, the Anthropic API, and Claude... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-chat-feedback-gives-anthropic-your-data-6vvsvmjhw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic does not use inputs or outputs from its commercial products to train models by default. This covers Claude for Work, the Anthropic API, and Claude... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-chat-feedback-gives-anthropic-your-data-6vvsvmjhw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6VVSVMjhw.png og:image:alt: Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic does not use inputs or outputs from its commercial products to train models by default. This covers Claude for Work, the Anthropic API, and Claude Gov. Training may happen if you submit thumbs up/down feedback or otherwise opt in, and feedback conversations are stored for up to 5 years. Feedback is de-linked from user and customer IDs and not combined with other conversations. Team and Enterprise Owners can disable the feedback button via the 'Rate chats' setting under Organization settings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does Anthropic use my Claude for Work or API data to train its models? No, by default Anthropic does not use inputs or outputs from commercial products like Claude for Work, the Anthropic API, or Claude Gov to train its models. Training only occurs if you explicitly submit feedback via the thumbs up/down button, report bugs, or otherwise opt in to data use, in which case chats and coding sessions may be used. _Teams weighing data privacy before adopting an AI coding assistant can track policy details like this on daily.dev._ ### How long does Anthropic keep my feedback conversation data? Anthropic stores the entire related conversation submitted via the thumbs up/down feedback button, including content, custom styles, conversation preferences, and model settings, for up to 5 years in its secured back-end. This feedback is de-linked from user and customer IDs before use and is not combined with your other conversations with Claude. _Developers evaluating vendor data retention terms can keep track of these details on daily.dev._ ### Can I stop my team from sending feedback data to Anthropic from Claude? Yes, a Primary Owner or Owner of a Team or Enterprise plan can disable the ability for organization members to submit feedback via the thumbs up/down button. This is done through the 'Rate chats' setting found under Organization settings > Data and Privacy. _Admins locking down AI tool data-sharing settings can follow policy changes like this via daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 2 discussions and 86 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-10-27). **TL;DR:** Commenters are largely frustrated that feedback (thumbs up/down, or even dismissing a CLI prompt) can trigger full conversation storage and possible training, seeing it as a deceptive dark pattern given Anthropic's stated no-training-by-default promises; others argue this is an obvious, expected tradeoff for giving feedback. **Sentiment:** 5% positive · 25% mixed · 70% skeptical **The case for** - Some argue it's a reasonable, standard practice: asking for feedback implicitly requires reviewing the content being rated. - A few note the feature could just be lightweight A/B testing of model/UI tweaks rather than full training, and is disclosed somewhere in the feedback form text. **The pushback** - Many feel it's a dark pattern, especially the claim that even dismissing the CLI feedback prompt (pressing 0) can be logged as 'feedback'. - Several feel deceived given Anthropic's explicit opt-out/no-training promises for paid plans, calling it a 'shitty move'. - Concern that feedback-triggered storage keeps the full conversation (not just the rated snippet) for up to 5 years, exposing proprietary code/business logic to competitors via training. - Some distrust that disabling telemetry/feedback is hard to find or incomplete, requiring workarounds like reverse proxies to inspect/block traffic. - Concern that the feedback-generation step itself consumes the user's own tokens without clear consent. **By community** - hackernews (heated): Discussion splits between people outraged at what they see as a deceptive data-collection dark pattern and others who find the reaction naive, arguing this is standard practice that was already disclosed. **Hottest debate:** Whether this is a deliberate dark-pattern/privacy breach versus an obvious and already-disclosed consequence of submitting feedback that users should have expected. **Open questions** - Does merely dismissing the Claude Code feedback prompt (pressing 0 or another number) actually count as submitting feedback that gets stored/trained on? - Is the stored feedback data actually used for full model training, or only for lightweight A/B testing of settings like system prompts? - How can Enterprise/paying users fully disable feedback-related data collection beyond the documented 'Rate chats' org setting? **Highlights** > The fact that Claude Code told me "thanks for the feedback … and thanks for helping to improve Anthropic’s models" when I pressed 0 to "dismiss" is not speculation, that's what the product did. I agree though that whether Anthropic actually considers it "feedback" for the purposes of a privacy loophole (vs. it being a sloppy response) is anyone's guess. > — [spenvo on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260537) > Generally (and with Anthropic), enterprise plans aren't used for training / tracking / targetting. There's a whole spectrum of things they could do from most to least aligned with that as a principle. For example, they could have a thumbs up/down - just track the metadata of the conversation (e.g. model used, how far through its context it was, how old the session was) - track metadata of the user as a whole (how often they use Claude, how many other "active" conversations they have on the go, how much they've tested other models, if this is their first time using new tweaks to params etc) - have contextual feedback of the chat available for humans to review (alongside the comments you put in the feedback), but not explicitly train on it. Whereas the option they've chosen is: > If you explicitly report feedback or bugs to us (e.g. via our thumbs up/down feedback button), or otherwise choose to allow us to use your data, then we may use your chats and coding sessions to train our models. So literally using your session as training input. They also could've allowed this to be an opt-in on bug reports. > — [another-dave on hackernews · 2 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259869) > > did you not expect this conversation to go into training or at least review? Use it for training/review (RLHF, whatever) and "we load the whole thread, not the specific response or surrounding few prompts, and store it for 5 years" seem completely different things. It's not obvious why being tech savvy would automatically make one aware that the 2nd version is happening. > — [caaqil on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260271) > 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. > — [markasoftware on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261219) > > How can them having my data, mostly engineering work on niche (small market) products hurt me? They will train on it, and now competitors or future competitors will know about your niche, the specific problems you face within it, and how to solve them without doing the work that you did to get there. > — [mapontosevenths on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260442) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259406) · 182 points · 82 comments - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654790) · 1 points · 4 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Anthropic Changes Its Rules To Adapt to New Features](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-changes-its-rules-to-adapt-to-new-features-ogav8pcmy) · Security Boulevard · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Anthropic wants you to use AI to decide whether or not you should use AI.](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-wants-you-to-use-ai-to-decide-whether-or-not-you-should-use-ai--igfgiopzi) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#data-privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/data-privacy), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/giving-chat-feedback-gives-anthropic-your-data-6vvsvmjhw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/giving-chat-feedback-gives-anthropic-your-data-6vvsvmjhw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/giving-chat-feedback-gives-anthropic-your-data-6vvsvmjhw"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T15:59:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T18:47:28.190Z","description":"Anthropic does not use inputs or outputs from its commercial products to train models by default. 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