HasData: nine AI companies train on user content by default until opt-out

What happened

HasData's 'AI Hypocrisy Index' (October 2026) analyzed 35 AI companies' content-use policies and found 9 train on user inputs/outputs unless the user opts out. It names Anthropic's policy ('We may use your Inputs and Outputs to train and improve Anthropic AI models, unless you opt out through your account settings') and Microsoft's ('In some markets, this data can help train our AI models in Microsoft Copilot unless you opt out').

The framing

The analysis contrasts companies' own anti-scraping policies against how they treat creators' pasted work: user content entered into the product becomes training data by default.

Status

An advocacy/research overview, not a court filing or ruling. The underlying company policies are public documents; the index's categorization is HasData's.