What's this about?
A plain help-centre article answering "can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?" It reached 378 points and 166 comments, which is a lot for a support page.
Why did a help article get that much attention?
Because the answer is usually buried. Most providers' positions are distributed across terms of service, a privacy policy, a data-processing addendum and a settings toggle, with different defaults for consumer and API tiers. A single page that states it plainly is unusual enough to be news, and the traffic is a decent proxy for how much people want this and how rarely they get it. It also lands the same week Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, which is the enterprise-scale version of the same anxiety.
Why does this matter to you?
HN 378 points, 166 comments
- If you are evaluating providers, this is the question, and the ease of finding the answer is itself a signal.
- Consumer and API defaults usually differ, and people routinely assume the API default applies to the chat product.
- The engagement suggests this is a live purchasing consideration, not a niche concern.