Anthropic Requests Claude Users' Permission to Record Voice Conversations for AI Training

Anthropic has begun asking users of its AI assistant, Claude, to allow the company to share their voice conversations, with the aim of using this data to train and improve its AI models. The request appears when users access Claude’s voice features, and the company has also added a separate option for this purpose within the privacy settings. Anthropic emphasizes that sharing voice data is optional, and the option is disabled by default in the settings interface that has been rolled out so far. Users are shown a message asking them to “allow us to use your voice data to improve our AI models,” explaining that voice recordings and voice conversation data help enhance Anthropic’s models’ ability to understand and respond to speech. The message also informs users that they can disable this option or delete their data at any time through the settings, offering two choices: Allow or Not Now, according to a report published by the website ghacks. Anthropic has placed voice data under a separate control in the privacy settings, meaning that the decision to allow training on voice conversations is independent of text chat settings. The company already offers an option that allows it to use regular conversations and Claude sessions to train its models, but the new voice data setting operates completely separately.