Does Claude (Anthropic) own your prompts?

Their words · Terms of Service

“ Generally. You may be allowed to interact with our Services in a variety of formats (we call these “ Inputs ”). Our Services may generate responses (we call these “ Outputs ”), or enable the Services to take actions on your behalf, such as software manipulation, data processing, and system interactions (we call these "Actions" ), based on your Inputs. Inputs and Outputs collectively are “ Materials .” Rights and Responsibilities.  You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and all Actions. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms and to provide the Services to you, including for example, to integrate with third-party services, to share Materials with others at your direction, and to take Actions. You also represent and warrant that your submitting Inputs to us or directing Claude to take Actions will not violate our Terms, our  Acceptable Use Policy , or any laws or regulations applicable to those Inputs or Actions. As between you and Anthropic, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain any right, title, and interest that you have in the Inputs you submit. Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs. Reliance on Outputs and Actions.  Artificial intelligence and large language models are frontier technologies that are still improving in accuracy, reliability and safety. ”

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