Grant individuals the right to opt out of being included in AI training data

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Arguments for

Privacy and consent

Supporters say AI training often relies on collecting or scraping personal data without consent, creating privacy and human-rights concerns. They argue individuals should be able to object, withdraw consent, and limit how much personal information is used to train models.

Companies across the world are supplying generative AI products under the veneer of efficiency and sophistication, but in reality, these systems perpetuate mass invasions of privacy through unlawful web scraping: an automated process for extracting data from websites, including p…

Likhita Banerji · May 28, 2026 · full quote
We need regulation guided by human rights, a universal recognition around leaving no space for data collection and AI development without consent.

Ramanjit Singh Chima · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
These measures will significantly limit the personal information that is used to train new Chat GPT models and better protect the fundamental right to privacy of Canadians.

Philippe Dufresne · May 6, 2026 · full quote
AI training purposes, they must provide people with clear information about these activities and give them a simple route to opt out

Information Commissioner's Office (UK) · 2025 · full quote
Users should have control over how their personal data, or data generated while interacting with a service, is used in the training of AI systems. This is consistent with a rights-based approach to regulating AI that emphasizes rights such as privacy. I have highlighted in my wri…

Sam Gregory · 2024 · full quote
Companies must immediately cease the practice of unlawful non-consensual web scraping of personal data for AI training purposes, and states must hold companies to account for their involvement in any human rights abuses linked to their design and business choices.

Amnesty International · May 28, 2026 · full quote

Creator control and payment

Supporters argue creators, journalists, developers, and other rights holders should remain in control of whether their work enters AI training. In these quotes, use without permission is linked to lack of consent, credit, or compensation, and some say compensation should follow when training use occurs.

Our approach will ensure Australian writers, artists and journalists retain ownership over their work, meaning no company should use Australian creative works to train AI without the artist’s control.

Australian Government · Jul 15, 2026 · full quote
Creators and artists must remain in control of how their work is used to develop AI systems.

Universal Music Group · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
AI systems are trained on journalistic content, which is scraped without consent, without compensation, without credit.

Anna Olsarenk · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Creator content should not be used to train commercial AI models without their consent and fair compensation.

Darren O'Rourke · Feb 26, 2026 · full quote
This is simple: if your work is used to train AI, there should be a way for you, the copyright holder, to determine that it's been used by a training model, and you should get compensated if it was. We need to give America's musicians, artists, and creators a tool to find out whe…

Peter Welch · 2026 · full quote
Developers should have the right to decide when and how their work enters the AI training pipeline.

Sean Roberts · Apr 13, 2026 · full quote

Existing opt-out mechanisms

Supporters point to existing toggles, preserved settings, opt-in programs, and similar product controls as evidence that user choice over AI training can be built into services. Several quotes also stress that people should be able to opt out while continuing to use the service rather than being forced to surrender data to participate.

You can control whether HubSpot uses your account's customer data to train its AI models by using the AI model training toggle.

HubSpot · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
We do not believe that users should be required to allow their submissions to be used for AI training simply in order to participate in contests.

AtCoder · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
You may opt out of having your interaction data used for AI model training while continuing to use Alfred.

LearnWithAlfred · Apr 29, 2026 · full quote
If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in.

GitHub · Mar 25, 2026 · full quote
If you decide to turn off the model training setting, we will not use any new chats [...] for future model training.

Anthropic · 2025 · full quote
We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing an opt-out toggle [...]

WordPress.com Staff · Feb 27, 2024 · full quote

Transparent enforceable controls

Some supporters emphasize that a right is meaningful only if it comes with clear information, simple routes to opt out, documentation of data rights and sources, privacy-protective defaults, and standardized machine-readable exclusion tools. They present these measures as a way to make rights effective and give both rights holders and AI providers greater legal certainty.

The idea is that you have to build your systems to collect only what you need and nothing more. And, if one of the options is more privacy protective than the other one, then by default, the more privacy protective option needs to be pre-selected.

Woodrow Hartzog · Jul 16, 2026 · full quote
Rights holders should have the possibility to use tools enabling them to effectively exclude the use of their works in AI training in a limited number of standardised machine-readable formats, potentially managed and listed by the EUIPO, thereby enabling the effective exclusion o…

European Parliament · Mar 10, 2026 · full quote
Model developers need to document the rights they have to work with the data they are using to train the model. This documentation should also provide information about the source of the data, whether it was public or private, etc. Model developers should respect the right of dat…

Ramayya Krishnan · Sep 12, 2023 · full quote
Written opt-outs remain essential for documenting consent (or its absence) in ways that matter to platforms, regulators, and courts.

The AI Rights Project · Apr 1, 2026 · full quote
Rightsholders told us that a lack of transparency from AI developers weakens their protections under copyright law by making it harder to identify infringement of their material. In addition, they cannot monitor whether any rights-reservation signals they may have used to prevent…

House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee · May 13, 2026 · full quote
The publisher CR requires Google to provide publishers with effective controls over the use of their search content in generative AI.

Competition and Markets Authority · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Unworkable individual burden

Opponents argue that broad opt-out systems are impractical and unfair because they place the burden on individual creators or users to police AI training. In these quotes, opting out is described as a practical impossibility or an unworkable mechanism, especially at the scale of online scraping and reuse.

I am pleased that the Government’s response today confirms what it set out in March: that it no longer has a preference for introducing a broad copyright exception for AI training with an opt-out mechanism. It was clear that this approach would have been unworkable and placed an …

Baroness Keeley · May 15, 2026 · full quote
Bectu has been clear that any model which places the burden on individual creators to ‘opt-out’ of the use of copyrighted work for AI training is unworkable, unfair and disproportionately harms freelancers.

Philippa Childs · Mar 18, 2026 · full quote
Providing an opt-out to all individuals [...] This is not only a practical impossibility, but also not desirable

Lokke Moerel · 2026 · full quote
To be clear: opting all of this music out of generative AI training is all but impossible. Despite this, there are legislators in various countries who are being convinced, thanks to lobbying from the most powerful and valuable AI companies, that providing a right to opt out of …

Ed Newton-Rex · 2024 · full quote
AI needs creators and the data they provide—but that data must be paid for, not stolen. Ironically, big tech relies on the strong IP regime as well; I am sure no one was more surprised than I was when Sam Altman at OpenAI noted, with irony, that DeepSeek had exploited its open-so…

Dame Caroline Dinenage · 2025 · full quote

Constraints on development

Some opponents say expanded opt-out rights, mandatory compensation, or onerous compliance requirements can restrict access to training data and thereby restrict AI development itself.

Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote

Rights signed away

Another objection is that a new right to control training may not give creative workers real leverage if employers can simply amend standard contracts and require workers to sign that right away. On this view, the formal right could shift control to bosses rather than to individuals.

If we create a new right to control training, that will not give creative workers control over AI training... It will give our bosses control over AI training, because they will amend our standard contracts to demand that we sign away our training rights to them.

Cory Doctorow · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote

Voluntary tools preferred

Some quotes suggest that preferences about AI training can be respected through voluntary opt-out tools and greater transparency rather than a broad mandated opt-out system. From this perspective, information and choice are preferable to a legal mechanism they view as unworkable.

One way to reflect and respect those wishes is through existing and new voluntary “opt out” tools.

Business Software Alliance · Jan 28, 2026 · full quote
AI needs creators and the data they provide—but that data must be paid for, not stolen. Ironically, big tech relies on the strong IP regime as well; I am sure no one was more surprised than I was when Sam Altman at OpenAI noted, with irony, that DeepSeek had exploited its open-so…

Dame Caroline Dinenage · 2025 · full quote

Insights

The quotes use 'opt out' in two different ways: some discuss personal data and user interactions, while others focus on copyrighted, published, or submitted works used in training.
Even several critics of a broad opt-out right focus on workability, burden, contracts, or preferred alternatives such as transparency and voluntary tools rather than denying that people have interests at stake.
A recurring pro-side theme is that a right is not enough on paper: supporters repeatedly call for clear notices, simple settings, documentation, and machine-readable signals so exclusion requests can actually be honored.
Several companies and institutions cited in the quotes already describe toggles, preserved preferences, opt-in requirements, or email requests for AI-training control, making the debate partly about whether such controls should be universal or enforceable.
Support for opt-out rights is framed across multiple lenses in the quotes, including privacy, human rights, consumer protection, child protection, and creator compensation.

Supporters frame opt-out rights as a baseline safeguard for privacy, consent, and control over creative or personal material, and many say practical tools for doing this already exist or can be standardized. Opponents focus on whether a broad opt-out model is workable, fair to individuals, compatible with AI development, or vulnerable to being waived away in contracts. The debate therefore turns heavily on mechanism and scope, not only on the underlying desire for more control.

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Flewnt
Perth-based rapper and advocate for protecting First Nations cultural property in AI.

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Just permission in general on what is entered and not entered into the models is definitely a part of ethical AI.
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The idea is that you have to build your systems to collect only what you need and nothing more. And, if one of the options is more privacy protective than the other one, then by default, the more privacy protective option needs to be pre-selected.
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Consumer Federation of America director

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It is the perfect recipe for something that needs federal government intervention. That's what legislatures and governments are there for: to protect people where they are unable to protect themselves and constrain companies from doing things that ar...
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No company should use Australian creative works to train AI without the artist’s control.
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National government of Australia; publisher of official digital and AI policy guidance.

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Our approach will ensure Australian writers, artists and journalists retain ownership over their work, meaning no company should use Australian creative works to train AI without the artist’s control.
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Anna Olsarenk
UN representative of the Global Forum for Media Development, a network supporting media organisations worldwide.

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AI systems are trained on journalistic content, which is scraped without consent, without compensation, without credit.
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Policy director and public-interest technologist at the Association for Progressive Communications; speaker at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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We need regulation guided by human rights, a universal recognition around leaving no space for data collection and AI development without consent.
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Global music company, speaking through its public-affairs representative on creators’ rights and AI.

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Creators and artists must remain in control of how their work is used to develop AI systems.
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Customer relationship management and marketing software company.

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You can control whether HubSpot uses your account's customer data to train its AI models by using the AI model training toggle.
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Japanese online competitive-programming platform and contest organizer.

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We do not believe that users should be required to allow their submissions to be used for AI training simply in order to participate in contests.
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Mistral AI

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Input and output data are used by default to train our artificial intelligence models, unless you opt-out of training.
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Cluesmith LLC
Company that provides the Shannon personal AI assistant.

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We will never use your personal content (emails, messages, calendar entries) to train AI models without your explicit opt-in consent.
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Companies must immediately cease the practice of unlawful non-consensual web scraping of personal data for AI training purposes, and states must hold companies to account for their involvement in any human rights abuses linked to their design and bus...
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Companies across the world are supplying generative AI products under the veneer of efficiency and sophistication, but in reality, these systems perpetuate mass invasions of privacy through unlawful web scraping: an automated process for extracting d...
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Online Safety Legal Officer at the Children's Rights Alliance.

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Children and young people should have the right to opt out or withdraw consent for their data to be processed, and there must be adequate assurance that children’s data is kept for the shortest possible period. Due regard should also be given for the...
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Rightsholders told us that a lack of transparency from AI developers weakens their protections under copyright law by making it harder to identify infringement of their material. In addition, they cannot monitor whether any rights-reservation signals...
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OpenAI must offer its users a choice about whether to participate or not in this practice.
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Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

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These measures will significantly limit the personal information that is used to train new Chat GPT models and better protect the fundamental right to privacy of Canadians.
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Washington State University

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Users who decide they do not want their Copilot interaction data used for AI training in GitHub must manually opt out by updating their GitHub account settings.
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You may opt out of having your interaction data used for AI model training while continuing to use Alfred.
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You can manage your preferences relating to how Canva and the third party service providers we engage to enable functionality within the Service, may use your data for training AI, including through the use of machine learning technologies.
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Developers should have the right to decide when and how their work enters the AI training pipeline.
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The AI Rights Project
Advocacy organization focused on consent, control, and rights in AI training.

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Written opt-outs remain essential for documenting consent (or its absence) in ways that matter to platforms, regulators, and courts.
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Mario Rodriguez

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Not interested? Opt out in settings under “Privacy.” If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used ...
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Software development platform and Microsoft subsidiary.

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If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in.
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DataCamp
Online learning platform for data science, analytics, and AI skills.

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To opt out, send an email to support@datacamp.com with the subject line “AI Model Training Opt-Out Request” and our team will process your request.
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Wendra Liang
Vice President of Legal at Vercel.

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Participating in this model training program is fully optional, with easy opt-out in Team Settings → Data Preferences.
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Richmond Public Schools
Public school division in Richmond, Virginia, publishing district AI-governance policy.

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Staff and students may request that their personal data not be used for AI training or automated decision-making systems.
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Indiana Management Performance Hub

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Opt-out of vendor data sharing and model training, where applicable.
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European Parliament
EU legislative body

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Rights holders should have the possibility to use tools enabling them to effectively exclude the use of their works in AI training in a limited number of standardised machine-readable formats, potentially managed and listed by the EUIPO, thereby enab...
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OC Queen Street LLC
Singapore law practice

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When using publicly available LLMs, the policy requires data control settings to be adjusted to prevent input data from being used for AI model training.
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Ministry of Law, Singapore
Singapore government ministry responsible for legal policy and justice

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Ensure the GenAI tool provider offers opt-out options, or provides legally binding commitments that they will not log, store, nor retain input and output data for any purpose, including content monitoring or model improvement.
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Darren O'Rourke
Irish Sinn Féin TD and member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

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Creator content should not be used to train commercial AI models without their consent and fair compensation.
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Government of Bangladesh
National government of Bangladesh, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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To give full effect to the right to erasure under applicable data protection law, the government shall interpret such right as extending to AI systems trained on personal data. Where an AI system has been trained using data that was unlawfully obtain...
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California Department of General Services

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Users must use the “opt-out” option on data collection and model training features that these GenAI might offer if available.
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We may share your personal information with our affiliates, service providers, and third-party collaborators for the purposes we outline above [...] and, unless you opt out, for training artificial intelligence models, including for their own indepen...
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American Medical Association
Professional association representing U.S. physicians and medical students.

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Individuals should have the right to opt-out, update, or request deletion of their data from generative AI tools. These rights should encompass AI training data and disclosure to other users of the tool.
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Peter Welch
U.S. Senator from Vermont; lead sponsor of the bipartisan TRAIN Act on AI training data transparency

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This is simple: if your work is used to train AI, there should be a way for you, the copyright holder, to determine that it's been used by a training model, and you should get compensated if it was. We need to give America's musicians, artists, and c...
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CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés)
French data protection authority

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right to object [...] Data subjects must be able to exercise their rights both: [...] on training datasets and, [...] on AI models
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Data Protection Commission (Ireland)
Irish data protection authority

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The DPC will continue to actively monitor LinkedIn’s rollout of this processing to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to take control of their personal data. Users should have received notifications from LinkedIn advising them on how they can as...
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LinkedIn
Professional networking platform company.

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Yes, you can opt out of having your LinkedIn data and content you create [...] used to train GAI models that generate content [...].
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AI safety research company

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If you decide to turn off the model training setting, we will not use any new chats [...] for future model training.
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Information Commissioner's Office (UK)
UK data protection regulator

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AI training purposes, they must provide people with clear information about these activities and give them a simple route to opt out
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We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing an opt-out toggle [...]
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Amelia Tyler
Voice actor; Baldur’s Gate 3

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to actually take my voice and use it to train something without my permission, I think that should be illegal.
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David Evan Harris
UC Berkeley public scholar, tech policy advisor

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we don't even have the right to object [...] to our photos of ourselves [...] being used to train AI systems
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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Australian privacy regulator

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using the personal information they hold to train a generative AI model [...] offer individuals the option of opting-out of such a use.
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Udbhav Tiwari
Mozilla product policy director

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Thank you, Senator. Absolutely. Yes. The Mozilla Foundation has run campaigns over the last four to five months that have explicitly focused on this specific question, both requiring companies to be transparent about the fact of whether they are usi...
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Ramayya Krishnan
Dean, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon

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Model developers need to document the rights they have to work with the data they are using to train the model. This documentation should also provide information about the source of the data, whether it was public or private, etc. Model developers s...
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California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
California privacy regulator

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additional consumer protections around the use of their personal information to train these technologies [...] the consumer can decide whether to opt-out or to proceed
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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I mean, I think a minimum is that users should be able to, to sort of opt out from having their data used by companies like ours or the social media companies. It should be easy to delete your data. I think those are, it should, but the thing that I ...
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Grammarly
AI writing assistant company

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The Product Improvement and Training control allows users [...] to opt out of allowing us to use their content [...] to train our models.
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Perplexity Support
Help center team

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Some data may be used to train AI models and improve search quality, unless you opt out through Account Settings
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X Corp.
Social media platform company

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X users have the ability to control when they want their public data [...] to be used to train and fine-tune generative AI models [...].
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Competition and Markets Authority
UK competition regulator

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The publisher CR requires Google to provide publishers with effective controls over the use of their search content in generative AI.
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Substack, Inc.
Newsletter publishing platform company

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This setting indicates to AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini that their models should not be trained on your published content.
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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ChatGPT, for instance, improves by further training on the conversations people have with it, unless you opt out.
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Inger Lise Blyverket
Norwegian Consumer Council executive director

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Meta does not have a [...] legal basis to process its users’ personal data to train AI models. Additionally, deliberately making it difficult to opt out
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Sam Gregory
Executive Director, WITNESS

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Users should have control over how their personal data, or data generated while interacting with a service, is used in the training of AI systems. This is consistent with a rights-based approach to regulating AI that emphasizes rights such as privacy...
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Max Schrems
Austrian privacy activist, lawyer, and founder of noyb; known for landmark CJEU cases invalidating EU-US data transfer frameworks

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The opt-out approach does not work in practice. Companies don't have the contract details of users and users don't know who is training based on their data. There is absolutely no public support for Meta or Google to include Europeans' personal data ...
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Chris Bryant
UK minister for creative industries

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The consultation published yesterday sets out clearly that the Government’s objectives on this issue are threefold: to enhance rights holders’ control of their material and their ability to be paid for its use, to support wide access to high-quality ...
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Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
US innovation policy think tank

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Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.
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Cory Doctorow
Author and digital rights activist

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If we create a new right to control training, that will not give creative workers control over AI training... It will give our bosses control over AI training, because they will amend our standard contracts to demand that we sign away our training ri...
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Baroness Keeley
Chair of the UK House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee.

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I am pleased that the Government’s response today confirms what it set out in March: that it no longer has a preference for introducing a broad copyright exception for AI training with an opt-out mechanism. It was clear that this approach would have ...
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Philippa Childs
Head of Bectu, the UK trade union for creative-industry workers.

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Bectu has been clear that any model which places the burden on individual creators to ‘opt-out’ of the use of copyrighted work for AI training is unworkable, unfair and disproportionately harms freelancers.
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Business Software Alliance
Trade association representing enterprise software companies and policy advocate on artificial intelligence.

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One way to reflect and respect those wishes is through existing and new voluntary “opt out” tools.
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Lokke Moerel
Privacy law professor and attorney

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Providing an opt-out to all individuals [...] This is not only a practical impossibility, but also not desirable
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Dame Caroline Dinenage
UK Conservative MP

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AI needs creators and the data they provide—but that data must be paid for, not stolen. Ironically, big tech relies on the strong IP regime as well; I am sure no one was more surprised than I was when Sam Altman at OpenAI noted, with irony, that Deep...
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Ed Newton-Rex
Generative AI ethics nonprofit CEO

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To be clear: opting all of this music out of generative AI training is all but impossible. Despite this, there are legislators in various countries who are being convinced, thanks to lobbying from the most powerful and valuable AI companies, that pr...
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Thomas Richards
Meta spokesperson

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We don’t currently offer a feature for people to opt-out of their information from our products and services being used to train our AI models.
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