I'm really disheartened by all this shrugging of shoulders for a company mining user data. On hackernews... Anthropic initally positioned itself as a company with privacy and data protection as a priority, and had a real chance to claim moral high ground compared to its competitors.

I'm not shrugging my shoulders about this. I already don't use online LLMs for anything important because of privacy concerns already (i.e. I assume anything that lands on their server is fair game for them to do what they like with it). If you do have privacy concerns about your data, host it locally. I have played around with self-hosted LLMs and they work for what I need, which is mostly playing around with them for entertainment.

I'm careful about what data of mine lands on someone else's server, so I'm not a fan of this even without the dark patterns.