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Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training
67•teekert•2h ago

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teekert•2h ago
Context: After careful research our organization preferred a European partner with good central privacy controls. We landed on Mistral, after being disappointed that the Pro tier was opt-in to training on prompts by default we switched up to the Team tier which provides an organization dashboard with some relevant settings. As we did that Mistral changed these options and the Team tier was now also opt-in by default and at the same time seemed to have lost the ability to centrally disable training on prompts for your entire organization. This even caused some of our (testing) prompts to be used for training (which Mistral removed after we expressed our disappointment).

For some time these pages conflicted with what our users reported (they said that in contrast to what I stated to our management they found they were opted into training on prompts by default as per their own privacy page). Mistral just now corrected their docs. I'm not sure how long the conflicting situation has lasted, but at least for several days.

For contrast: Claude disables training on prompts for organizations starting from the 18 euro tier [0]. As a European I'm disappointed.

[0] https://claude.com/pricing#team-&-enterprise

summarity•48m ago
“Opt in by default” would mean that it is not enabled by default. Do you mean opt out?
teekert•39m ago
You are "opting in to sharing your prompts for training", by default in this case. My slider says: "Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral's AI models.", it is on by default for everyone on the Team plan, the admin can't centrally turn it off anymore, and any user can toggle it when they want to. This all changed last week.

I know I'm naive but I expect that when I pay, this stuff is simply off, so I was already surprised by the Pro plan. But I did look out for it there, because Anthropic made this switch some time ago.

KPGv2•32m ago
> You are "opting in to sharing your prompts for training", by default in this case.

The English term for that is "opt out" not "opt in." To opt is to choose. If something is on by default, you have not opted in. You were forced in, and turning it off means you must opt out. (I.e., choose to be out.)

normally I wouldn't care about a mistake like this, except that opt in/out are very important concepts in software development and hacker culture. And it reversed the meaning of the original comment in a highly confusing, relevant way.

jrave•5m ago
as another non-native speaker, i think that while the person you're answering to didn't use the default way of expressing this in the english-speaking world, i did understand what they meant, i think they do know what opting means and i think the reasoning is this: when they say data collection is "opt in" by default they mean that by choosing to use a product, you are opting into your data being collected (at the same time). on the other hand, native speakers saying something is "opt out" describes the options or toggles one has available in the default case - when something is toggled "true", you (only) have the choice to toggle it of. so english speakers talk about the controls one has to CHANGE the status quo.
lukan•47m ago
"For contrast: Claude disables training on prompts for organizations starting from the 18 euro tier "

In theory also for individuals?

At least I have that toggle to deactivate that. But how would I ever know if they actually respect that?

kccqzy•27m ago
If you don’t trust the company to keep their promise, don’t use their products.
warkdarrior•7m ago
How do you know an LLM provider does not kill puppies every time you send a prompt longer than 14 words?
throwaway89201•29m ago
> and at the same time seemed to have lost the ability to centrally disable training on prompts for your entire organization

There is a toggle on https://admin.mistral.ai that allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API for your entire organisation. And I'm not on the enterprise plan. I've disabled training the first time I created an account, and it has remained that way.

You story is also very confusing due to the wording around "opt-in by default" and "disappointed [about] opt-in to training" (most people would be disappointed about an opt-out) and probably conveys the wrong message to most people.

floki165•49m ago
Taking away the ability to centrally enforce an opt-out across an organization is a massive red flag.

You can't reasonably expect every individual employee on a Team plan to remember to dig into their personal settings and flip a privacy toggle. For any company dealing with sensitive IP or GDPR-compliant data, this basically makes the Team tier unusable.

shujip•33m ago
Yes. If the privacy control only exists per user, it isn't a control for a team.

Defaults matter more than the blog post. "You can opt out" is not the same product as "the org can actually enforce opt out."

throwaway89201•30m ago
This isn't the case. There's a toggle on https://admin.mistral.ai that allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API for your entire organization, I just checked.
r_lee•43m ago
European innovation right here

you can't make this shit up

segmondy•43m ago
There are so models that beats all of Mistral models, plus you can run many of them locally. Why would anyone run Mistral?
KPGv2•29m ago
Possibly because Mistral is a French-based company, so EU companies can cut the American umbilical cord a bit more.
jnurmine•15m ago
To be honest, I have a hard time noticing differences with Claude (in Kiro) and Mistral Vibe, at least with what I use them for. They simply feel like talking to the exact same thing.
perks_12•15m ago
The OCR stuff is quite usable. Their models perform good at some very basic tasks, so I use them to diversify. But their current model lineup is really terrible.
villish•10m ago
To have at least a choice of using a European trained model. Downloadable weights is not open source. Mistral is able to respond to any regulatory queries about training data and concerns.
maxdo•41m ago
It’s a spyware, but a sovereign one
zoobab•39m ago
What do you expect from running on "someone else computer?"
DerDerDaIst•33m ago
Oh come on. So you should be fine with this because "hey we're the friendly europeans..."?
ex1fm3ta•32m ago
I mean they all do it right ? Mistral is just the first one to publicly say it.
f6v•32m ago
Same company that has a partnership with Saudis, btw.
maz1b•29m ago
I could be mistaken, but wasn't Mistral openly championing themselves as a company and EU option that wouldn't do this/didn't do this?
whizzter•25m ago
Maybe they realized that they were falling behind too much? To me it seems like user-feedback on bad descisions by the AI once it's trained to a basic level is among the most important signals in tuning the model to perform better.
Diti•28m ago
This gets posted literally moments before I was about to pay them after ditching Claude. Thank you! I hate data collection in paid products.

I think I will be using Kagi Ultimate for the inference UI, so the data is somewhat anonymized before being collected.

throwaway89201•22m ago
I'm really hoping Mistral will succeed with their open models, so I'm a bit biased, but I don't have any affiliation. This submit is a bit of well-meaning but confused scaremongering however.

Mistral has had, and continues to have, a toggle in the admin settings that permanently disables training on your data. The option has not been removed, and previous opt-outs are still honored. As far as I know, Mistral always trained on your data by default except for the enterprise plan, with the option to disable it on all plans, and with the option for organizations to make the choice for all your users.

Kagi Ultimate still uses mostly closed models by OpenAI / Anthropic, etc.

evanjrowley•13m ago
My best experience with Mistral has been with their expensive GLM-5.2 model. It's actually developed by Z.ai, but unlike Z.ai, the GLM-5.2 at Mistral can be used at a low price without training on your prompts - but only if you remember to hit the privacy toggle in their admin settings.

Planning code changes with GLM-5.2 using a Mistral Studio API key and implementing code changes using the Mistral Vibe API key has worked well for me. At my basic subscription tier, Vibe will share data with Mistral. It works for me because, when it comes to privacy, I care less about the actual code and more about the planning / high-level stuff.

saaaaaam•10m ago
You can opt out.
perks_12•14m ago
I assume they do this no before releasing new models. It feels like they expect higher user influx from their new models.
saaaaaam•10m ago
This is a hugely misleading editorialised title.

The page title is "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training".

Right at the top of the page it says "In certain cases, your input and output data (such as conversations, documents, and other user-provided content) may be included in Mistral’s model training programs. You retain full control over this processing and have the right to opt out of these programs at any time."

krunck•9m ago
Very disappointing. I really get the sense that all AI companies and anti-privacy parasites on society.
danelski•4m ago
Most commenters here clutching their pearls as if Claude and Gemini Pro didn't do it already. In the latter you (as a paying customer) can't even store the chat history unless you agree to their 'improvement of services'. Do you have all your accounts paid for by the enterprise or you never check the settings?

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