https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/23/openai-tumber-...
Note that Anthropic has committed not to train models on logged data, so I don’t understand some of the concerns here. What exactly is your threat model? That Anthropic would train models contrary to their terms of service? That you trust them enough not to log your data prior to this, but not enough to trust their stated limits on how logged data will be used now?
Ever since the Mythos announcement it’s been clear that we’re heading towards a future where SOTA models are no longer available to the average person, and not only cost more, but also require payment in the form of use case verification and data sharing. OpenAI’s 5.5-Cyber model requires the same, so it’s not just Anthropic.
We’re unhappy with this because we’ve all gotten used to being able to play with the new shiny model as soon as it’s available, but what I’m seeing in this thread about Anthropic being “stupid” is emotion-based wishful thinking.
In theory, definitely.
But this seems like a really, really, really no-good seriously bad decision from Anthropic. Like, I get why they want this (and can see it from their perspective), but many of their largest clients literally cannot allow this without regulator sign-off, which almost certainly won't be forthcoming.
Like, if the Fed and the ECB say this is OK then it might work, but other than that I predict that this decision will be reversed ~soon.
As long as it’s service telemetry, not used for model training, not inspected by humans, not analyzed except for service purposes… I don’t see the regulatory issue.
Are there any regulations covering what telemetry your service providers can keep? I’m skeptical, but even if so it would be trivial for Anthropic to exempt certain larger customers while still keeping the policy published as universal.
Sure, but considering the average person and how short-term their thinking tends to be, I'm not sure I'd jump straight into "think about how much money they could lose, of course they think long-term".
Large corporations like Microslop, Google, Meta etc. were frequently behave like headless chickens
> For OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, classifier-flagged traffic will be retained for up to 30 days for automated offline abuse detection
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-d...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5#a-new...
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## A new data retention policy
Finally, we’re making a change to the way we handle business
customer data for Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models with
similar or higher capability levels. We will require 30-day
retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models, on both
first- and third-party surfaces. [...]I am willing to bet that the SpaceX deal is probably why Fable's launching now, as they are much less compute constrained than they were a month ago.
gpt-5.5 isn't larger than gpt-5.4 but costs double.
that's obvious, but perhaps worth stating: it's worth it, demand for the model is unprecedented and the only downside for Anthropic if AWS rejected would be some revenue pushed a quarter away as they get Fable ready on their recently acquired compute from xAI and Google.
Anthropic is trying, well see if it's a bold strategy.
1. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-is-g...
"For more on how Anthropic handles this data, see Anthropic’s commercial terms and data retention policy. Enabling the Claude Fable 5 policy constitutes acknowledgement of this requirement. Leaving it off keeps Claude Fable 5 unavailable to your organization."
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-is-g...
I don't think it mentions sharing the data with third parties such as Anthropic?
From https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retenti...
edit: Google’s own docs also say zero data retention isn’t possible with Fable and your data will be retained for 60 days “outside of your account”. I’m doubtful that this data sharing is an AWS-only thing.
I expect them to train on their traffic, and I train on mine.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-d...
60 days.
Their carve-outs for safety (public interest) and legal are also valid exceptions in gdpr as well.
Since Anthropic is a US company the GDPR compliance claims would be dubious and open to litigation by entities like NOYB.
Everybody should just assume that they are lying about data retention and learning anyway.
They showed zero respect for intellectual property in the past and they will show zero respect now or in the future. A few thousand Euros/dollars in subscription doesn't matter when several trillions are in play (at least in their plans).
> After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically
Do we believe that?
> or we're legally required to keep it.
Aha - so, data is forever.
If you don't believe them now why would you have believed them earlier when they said "no data is retained" ?
It is literally 10X to 20-X cheaper to directly buy Anthropic subscriptions for your devs.
And for the cost, if you’re an enterprise with more than 150 people, you’re on the token plan.
We 'trust' Amazon already and Amazon has no incentive at all to collect the data to finetune claude because they don't own claude.
I only told a commentor why a business would pay more to Amazon than going directly to Anthropic.
The announcement itself is def problematic and either leads to big companies accepting this and then going directly to anthropic or some talks in the background we don't know yet what it will entail.
So basically all your data will flow to NSA/CIA/Mossad if they show even slight interest in your org or you as a person. Gotcha.
Also broadly available to us plebs via openrouter and similar. Claude is available on there under ZDR terms via the Google Vertex and Amazon Bedrock providers.
Even in the happy case where nothing bad happens, you get a badly integrated product, because you integrate not against the actual vendor, but against a abstraction layer that commoditizes the actual product, effectively forcing you to either use the least common denominator of features, or circumventing the actual aggregation model itself with some kind of 'vendor_specific_parameters' parameter in the aggregator API.
My thesis is drop the vendor neutrality, and build your integration with the vendor directly.