Anthropic has started asking Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help train and improve its AI models.
The new prompt appears when using Claude’s voice features and explicitly asks users to allow Anthropic to use their voice data for AI training.
“Allow us to use your voice data to improve our AI models,” Anthropic notes in the prompt.
“Audio recordings and voice chat data help improve how Anthropic AI models understand and respond to speech. Turn this off or delete this data anytime in settings.”
The good news is that this appears to be entirely optional. You can either select Allow or Not now, and there’s also a dedicated toggle inside Claude’s Privacy settings.
Interestingly, voice training is separate from Anthropic’s existing option to use your chats and coding sessions for model training.
That means you could allow Anthropic to train on your voice conversations while keeping regular chats and Claude Code sessions excluded, or the other way around.
Claude gets a separate voice data training toggle
Inside Settings > Privacy, Anthropic describes the option as “Allow us to use your voice data.”
“For approved sessions, allow the use of your audio recordings and voice chat data to improve Anthropic AI models,” the setting explains.
In the interface we’ve seen, the setting is disabled by default, so Anthropic isn’t automatically opting users into sharing their voice recordings.
You can also turn the option off later, and Anthropic says users can delete the voice data from settings if they change their mind.
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