How the AI features work in Gather

Some of Gather is powered by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. This page explains what that means for what you type.

Which features use it

• Ask, the assistant. Tell it what you want ("add milk to the list", "find the chili") and it works out what to do.
• Read a recipe. Paste a recipe, and Claude turns it into ingredients and steps.
• Fix a line. Claude suggests a cleaner version of one ingredient line.

Everything else in Gather, including your recipes, plans and lists, works without AI.

What is sent to Anthropic

• Ask sends what you type, the name of the page you are on, and the last turns of your conversation (up to 12), so it can follow along.
• Read a recipe sends the text you pasted. Fix a line sends that one line.
• Nothing that names you is sent: not your name, your email or your account. But anything you type goes as you typed it, so leave out what you would not want processed.

What is not sent

• Your recipe collection, meal plans and shopping list, unless you paste them in.
• Your voice. Gather does not record audio. If you dictate, your phone or computer turns your speech into text, and only the text is sent.

What Anthropic does with it

• It uses what you send to answer you, and does not train its models on it.
• It deletes it within 30 days. The exceptions: content its safety systems flag may be kept for up to 2 years, and the law may require keeping something longer.

What Gather keeps

• Your Ask conversation, so you can scroll back. Only you can see it. Clear history deletes all of it at once.
• Nothing from Read a recipe or Fix a line, except what you choose to save.

Check what it does

Claude can be wrong: it may misread an amount, get a conversion wrong, or miss an allergen. Check anything that matters, especially allergies, diets and food safety. When Ask does something for you, Gather tells you what it did.

When it is off

Ask may be switched off, or may have used up today's allowance. Gather still works without it: enter recipes yourself, or use Bring your own AI.

More: our Privacy Policy, section 3, and our Terms, section 6.