All news with #training data governance tag

🎙️ Anthropic now prompts Claude voice users to voluntarily allow their audio recordings and voice chat data to be used to improve its AI models. The prompt appears when using voice features and the option is off by default, with a dedicated toggle in Settings > Privacy. Voice training is handled separately from chat and code training, and users can toggle permission or delete stored voice data at any time.

🔒 Cloudflare announces a new Disallow AI Training setting to let site owners remain indexed for search while refusing AI training of their content. The company defines an Accountable designation for crawler operators who meet transparency and control requirements; Apple, Google, and Microsoft qualify. Cloudflare will publish preferences in robots.txt, classify crawler behavior, and apply domain-level controls for Training, Search, and Agents.

📰 A dispute over the sale of archived Spirit Airlines employee data persists months after the carrier sought bankruptcy protection. Reportedly including hundreds of millions of emails and chats, OneDrive and SharePoint items, and millions of recorded calls, the dataset has drawn competing bids from AI training firms and at least one major cloud company. Former employees and unions object, citing privacy and unpaid compensation concerns. Stakeholders are considering anonymization as a possible compromise.

🧾 Google removed a promotional X post for NotebookLM after users noted an AI-generated infographic closely mirrored a stuffing recipe from the blog HowSweetEats. The card, produced using Google’s Nano Banana Pro image model, reproduced ingredient lists and structure that matched the original post. After being called out on X, Google quietly deleted the promotion; the episode highlights broader concerns about AI scraping and attribution. The company also confirmed it is testing ads in AI-generated answers alongside citations.