Anthropic asks Claude users to share conversations for AI training

Anthropic wants to hear from you. It means that literally. The company behind the Claude chatbot is asking users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help improve its AI models. The request lands in a crowded debate over how AI companies collect training material. Anthropic has long marketed itself as the safety-focused lab. That makes every change to its data practices worth a close look. What Anthropic is asking for The core of the request is simple. Anthropic is prompting users to opt in to sharing voice conversations so the company can use them for model improvement. That framing matters because of where Anthropic started. Under its earlier setup, the company’s voice features worked differently from its text chats. Audio recordings were deleted after transcription and were not used to train models. Put simply, the spoken audio vanished once it became text. Only the transcript could feed training, and only if a user’s settings allowed it. How the 2025 policy shift set the stage The voice ask builds on a bigger change Anthropic made on August 28, 2025. That day, the company updated its consumer terms to let users consent to their chats and coding sessions being used ...