I dunno, I feel like we’ve seen this play often enough - “option to opt-out” is absolutely going to be the first feature slated for elimination on the product roadmap - “after all, only 5% of customers are using it.”

The terms "opt-in" and "opt-out" indicate what the default is, so "... by default" is redundant. "Opt-in" means that you can opt (choose) to be in while the default is out.

In this case, since the default is in unless you opt out, it's opt-out.

I agree with everything you’ve said, but also am happy that they’re forcing users both new and existing to make a choice to continue using Claude under the new terms, rather than silently starting to train for existing users who take no action.

Like you, I would have preferred that the UI for the choice didn’t make opt-in the default. But at least, this is one of the rare times where a US company isn’t simply assuming or circumventing consent from existing users in countries without EU-style privacy laws who ignore the advance notification. So thank you Anthropic for that form of respect.

The terms say it is opt-out not opt-in, despite the word play.

> We may use Materials ... unless you opt out of training through your account settings.

[1] https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/GenAI-versions/commit/d8...

It's opt-out, so it's in by default. Opt-in would mean it's out by default and would be a good thing.