Anthropic announced the release of a new reflection dashboard in Claude that measures and visualises how much time you spent with the chatbot, including which tasks you focused on the most and when you recorded peak activity.
You can trace your activity back to one, three, six, or 12 months as part of this beta feature that’s being rolled out for all Free, Pro, and Max users.
According to the company, the feature came as users expressed “a desire to better understand how, exactly, can AI be integrated into daily life.”
People who want to see their usage data have to allow the chatbot to generate memory from past conversations. This can be done by navigating to Settings, selecting the “Capabilities” tab, and turning on Memory functions. The “Reflect” tab is right there as well, which lights up with data, insights, and charts once you turn on Memory.
Some of this information includes the percentage of time you spent on each task, such as coding projects, brainstorming sessions, food recipes, and more. A chart also shows you which time of the day you spend the most on Claude, along with your most active day of the week, and total conversations with the LLM.
One of the goals of the dashboard is to help users improve “AI fluency” skills, including how you set goals, how descriptive your prompts are, how you assess the usefulness of a response and whether you push back.
A yet-to-be released feature includes how much time you spent with Claude.
In the past, features that dress up and display behavioural data – even if it’s fun for many users – have raised privacy concerns. Spotify’s Wrapped feature is one of the most prominent examples, parsing a year’s worth of users’ listening data to give them a summary of their favourite artists, songs, and music genres. In 2023, Pop critic Alex Petridis called Spotify’s Wrapped feature “creepy” and said “its message is that something, somewhere is effectively spying on you, carefully taking note of everything you listen to and when.”
Anthropic addresses this in its announcement and says reflections aren’t drawn from incognito chats, connected tools like your email or calendar, or health apps. “The information and insights in your reflection stay there, they aren’t used for any other purpose,” it said. – Inc./TNS
