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by w10-1 110 days ago
They do require that you allow them to use your name publicly.

They are silent on whether you can prohibit them from training on your input, so I assume you can.

My guess is, if even 10% of maintainers forget to disable training, then Anthropic will have a most excellent source of how really good developers approach problems that can be fed back into the model. That could improve things for everyone.

Of course, the whole purpose of a trial is to induce dependence on the service. Let’s hope that doesn’t reduce the skill of those maintainers. If open source code gets better as a result, that’s good for all.
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TuxSH 110 days ago
> By accepting a Program subscription, you grant Anthropic permission to identify you publicly as a Program recipient, including by referencing your name, GitHub username, and associated open source project(s).

I was tempted about applying but that part is everything but nice and I think I'll just pass

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saulpw 110 days ago
There's no non-disparagement clause, so how about you left them use your name etc, and then you can come out in public and say those mean things and shame/embarrass them.
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TuxSH 110 days ago
Sure, but what I'm slightly worried about is people easily resolving my username to my real name. Maybe I worry too much, dunno
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kelnos 109 days ago
That's fair, but I think it's also not unreasonable for Anthropic to want some sort of "compensation" for giving something away for free (even if it's just a paltry 6-months, which screams "sales tactic"). The terms around getting free stuff sometimes have things that aren't compatible with something about how we do things, and that's fine; we just don't get to take advantage of the free stuff.
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TuxSH 109 days ago
Yes, I agree.

It's just that I value the right to reveal my identity on my own terms a lot higher than $1200 (using my username and project name is fine). For the offer to become enticing they would need it to be 5~10y instead of 6mo, or to simply remove the $realname part of the "publicity" section

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trollbridge 110 days ago
Of course they're going to train on open-source input (not like you could stop them).

And of course they're also going to train on your private inputs. It's right there in the TOS.

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lostmsu 110 days ago
> And of course they're also going to train on your private inputs. It's right there in the TOS.

Anthropic actually says they won't train on your private inputs on paid plans as long as you opted out. Unlike Google and OpenAI.

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