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bethekidyouwant | on: Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
Even worse when you git push something Microsoft gets all your code!
dannyw | parent | next
Yes, that is your intended purpose of “git push”, it’s to save. And only if you use GitHub.

A better analogy here is probably “every time you use VS Code, the files you edit get sent to Microsoft”.

Some legitimate concerns:

• You have trade secrets. Previously; you can use services like Bedrock, etc, with signed contracts and significant reputations. Your contract is between AWS and you, and stays within your AWS security boundary.

• Security breaches. Remember when Anthropic accidentally published the source tree of Claude code? Or Meta’s recent AI recovery bot that didn’t check if the supplied recovery email was actually the email of the Instagram account? The best way to reduce your exposure is to minimise storage.

• Weaponised T&S. For example what if Anthropic decided to build a classifier for “usage in unsupported regions” that’s super overbearing (as we see with Fable) and vacuums up all context/input/output if there’s Mandarin? Contractually they could now retain it forever, not just 30 days, for ‘trust and safety purposes’ and perhaps have AI scan for any new or interesting ML techniques at scale, for Anthropic’s own use? They say just can’t train Claude models on the data.

bethekidyouwant | root | parent
All analogies are bad.
darkwater | root | parent | next
The only one doing a very bad analogy in the thread it was you. You got a response with a counter analogy just to play on your same field and then a deep answer with real scenarios. You should respond to those, if you want to continue the discussion.
hexasquid | root | parent | next
Using language to represent reality is lossy
GroksBarnacles | root | parent
All models are wrong, but some are useful
layer8 | parent | next
Only if you push it to GitHub.
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tcp_handshaker | parent | next
That is why, for the last five years I have been checking in with them, code with some of the most atrocious quality. So far...its working....
vntok | root | parent | next
Thank you for your service.
OtomotO | parent
Uhm, no?

I have NO single project on Github.

One of my clients has their project on GitHub.

Every other client I have ever worked with or for ran and runs their own gitforge.