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

Key insights

Across the quotes, transparency about what data enters AI training is repeatedly treated as necessary for any meaningful control or accountability.
Privacy-focused quotes concentrate on personal data, consent, and withdrawal, while creator-focused quotes emphasize authorization, licensing, and compensation for copyrighted or cultural works.
Many companies describe account toggles, settings, or contractual promises as workable controls, but several advocates and policymakers argue that scattered product settings do not amount to an effective general right.
A central fault line is the default rule: some treat opt-out as a necessary safeguard, while others argue that the more protective option should be preselected or that training should happen only after explicit permission.
Some supportive quotes go beyond future data collection and say objections or withdrawals should also affect existing datasets or even trained models.

Arguments for

Privacy and consent

Supporters argue that people should be able to decline or withdraw consent when their personal data is used to develop AI systems. They present opt-out as part of basic privacy and human-rights protections, including for children and for uses that continue into training datasets and models.

Where User Data is used for GenAI model development, and exceptions to consent do not apply, organisations must obtain meaningful consent by providing AI-Specific Notifications. These notifications should, to the extent practicable, provide: [...] (d) How individuals can decline …

Personal Data Protection Commission (Singapore) · Jul 20, 2026 · 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
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.

American Medical Association · 2026 · full quote
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 evolving capacity of a child,…

Alex Murphy · May 19, 2026 · full quote
right to object [...] Data subjects must be able to exercise their rights both: [...] on training datasets and, [...] on AI models

CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) · 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

Creator control over works

Another line of support focuses on creative and journalistic material, arguing that artists, performers, writers, and publishers should remain in control of whether their works are used to develop AI systems. In this view, training on such material should not happen without the creator's authorization, and opt-out tools help reserve that choice.

No company should use Australian creative works to train AI without the artist’s control.

Government of Australia · 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
Rightsholders must have the ability to opt out of having their work used for AI training and data crawling.

European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs · Jan 28, 2026 · full quote
It is vital that our government does not open the door to tech companies to train AI models on artists’ works without permission and pay.

Christian Zimmermann · Mar 24, 2026 · full quote
This opt out unequivocally asserts that audiovisual performers reserve the exclusive right to authorise or refuse the reproduction of their performances for text and data mining within the EU. This sends a clear message that: AI developers may not use BECS members’ performances f…

British Equity Collecting Society · Feb 20, 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

Transparency makes rights usable

Proponents say a right is only meaningful if people can find out whether their data or works were used and can document their objection. They therefore pair opt-out rights with calls for disclosure, record access, and proof that exclusion signals are being respected.

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
Unfortunately, it is exceedingly difficult for copyright owners and artists to know if and how AI systems have used their work for training purposes. The TRAIN Act would provide a path to information sharing without the need to resort to infringement lawsuits.

Tracey Armstrong · Jan 22, 2026 · full quote
By creating a pathway for artists and rightsholders to learn what inputs are used by AI programs, the TRAIN Act will increase transparency and allow effective recourse for creative works that have been used without consent.

Dr. Moiya McTier · Jan 22, 2026 · full quote
There is no path for creators to know if their work has been used — without their permission and without compensation — to train AI models. The TRAIN Act would grant artists access to such AI records.

Madeleine Dean · Jan 22, 2026 · 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
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

Feasible controls already exist

Many organizations present opt-out as a practical feature that can be offered through settings, toggles, or contractual limits, sometimes without affecting price, features, or continued use of the service. These examples frame user choice over training as operationally feasible.

For users logged into a Microsoft account, you will be able to control whether your consumer data is used for training the generative AI models used in Copilot and other AI offerings from Microsoft through an opt-out control. Opting out will exclude your past, present, and future…

Microsoft · 2026 · full quote
Customer may, at any time, and on a go-forward basis, elect to opt-out of Docusign’s AI Training utilizing the applicable “opt-out” toggle or feature within the applicable Docusign Service.

DocuSign · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
If you opt out, we stop using your data to build global models.

Salesforce · May 20, 2026 · full quote
You can opt out of model improvement at any time, with no effect on price or features.

Swarms · Jul 7, 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
We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.

Twitch · Aug 12, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Unworkable in practice

Critics say opt-out systems are unrealistic because they require individuals and rightsholders to constantly watch for uses they often cannot see. Without reliable visibility into training practices, they argue, the right is unfair to exercise and difficult to enforce.

An opt-out system as proposed by AI companies places burdens and costs on rights holders, as it would require ongoing surveillance to see whether copyright material is being used. We cannot scour the internet and ensure we are opting out on all of those different sites of publica…

Kate Gilchrist · Oct 6, 2026 · full quote
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
The current opt-out framework, which is meant to enable rights holders to protect their content and stop AI companies from using it for training if they say so, is turning out to be unworkable in practice.

Arthur Mensch · Mar 24, 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.

Bectu · Mar 18, 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

Permission, not default inclusion

Another objection is that opt-out starts from the wrong premise by treating AI training as allowed unless people stop it. Opponents say this weakens consent and copyright, can leave creators bound by contracts they did not meaningfully negotiate, and should give way to explicit authorization, licensing, collective bargaining, or remuneration.

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
This proposal would have significantly weakened UK copyright law, with creators opted-in to AI training by default, removing the need for creator consent and placing an unrealistic burden on creators to opt-out.

Creators Rights Alliance · Mar 18, 2026 · full quote
What creators need after this pause is a firm commitment to copyright and neighbouring rights and support for collective licensing for AI uses, including via existing trade union collective bargaining mechanisms.

Paul W Fleming · Mar 18, 2026 · full quote
This pioneering licence will enable rightsholders to separately opt-in to their content being used for AI model training and RAG models, providing a clear, legal framework for the use of copyrighted works in generative AI.

The Publishers Association · Mar 2026 · full quote
We are glad the Government agrees that creative workers should be paid fairly for their work. We have campaigned tirelessly to ensure that the unworkable opt-out and a commercial Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception, which would enable unrestricted use of copyright-protected work…

Anna Ganley · Mar 18, 2026 · full quote
The government must rule out any form of copyright exception for AI as a priority. As this report demonstrates, an exception is unjustified, undermines a rapidly growing licensing market, and represents a wholesale transfer of valuable UK content to global tech giants for free. L…

Mandy Hill · Mar 2026 · full quote

Obstacle to AI development

Some argue that broad opt-out rights would limit access to training data and add compliance burdens that slow model development. In this view, such rules could create dataset constraints and favor only those actors able to secure the needed data.

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
If you create, at the kind of scale we’re talking about, an obligation to license or a right to opt out of training, then you create huge obstacles to the capacity to access the data you need to train AI systems well. You create a system where there are limits in the datasets and…

Carys Craig · Feb 26, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Needs effective implementation

Several quotes support exclusion rights only if the mechanism is standardized, technically viable, and easy to use, with enough information for people to know who is training on their data and how to object. On this view, the effectiveness of the right depends heavily on its implementation.

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
By allowing rightsholders to opt out, the mechanisms must remain technically viable.

Computer & Communications Industry Association Europe · Jun 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
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 assert their right to object und…

Data Protection Commission (Ireland) · 2025 · 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 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 into their algorithms. Now all…

Max Schrems · 2026 · full quote

Opt-out as a minimum

Some supportive voices treat opt-out as a baseline but prefer more privacy-protective defaults, such as opt-in consent or no training unless a user affirmatively agrees. For them, user control matters most when nonparticipation is not the default burden.

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
When we integrate AI capabilities into our platform, we use API endpoints and vendors that do not feed your data back into model training. Opt-in vs. opt-out matters more than you think. Even with opt-in as our policy, we’re not rushing to flip the switch.

Netlify · Apr 13, 2026 · full quote
We will never use your personal content (emails, messages, calendar entries) to train AI models without your explicit opt-in consent.

Cluesmith LLC · May 30, 2026 · full quote
Your photos are never used for AI training unless you explicitly opt in via your profile settings.

COINDEX · May 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

Withdrawal should reach models

A further nuance is that stopping future collection may not be enough. Some quotes say objection or withdrawal should extend to existing training datasets, past data, or even models trained on unlawfully obtained or later-withdrawn data.

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 obtained, processed without valid co…

Government of Bangladesh · Feb 9, 2026 · full quote
right to object [...] Data subjects must be able to exercise their rights both: [...] on training datasets and, [...] on AI models

CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) · 2026 · full quote
For users logged into a Microsoft account, you will be able to control whether your consumer data is used for training the generative AI models used in Copilot and other AI offerings from Microsoft through an opt-out control. Opting out will exclude your past, present, and future…

Microsoft · 2026 · full quote
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.

American Medical Association · 2026 · full quote

Across the quotes, user and creator control, consent, and transparency recur as shared concerns, even among those who reject opt-out as the best tool. The main dispute is whether an opt-out right can work effectively at scale or whether it leaves too much burden on individuals and should be replaced or supplemented by opt-in, licensing, or stronger deletion and disclosure duties.

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Many developers are improving transparency and offering global opt-out mechanisms, but there is scope to design more granular user controls, supported by “just-in-time transparency” mechanisms that deliver relevant information at the moment of intera...
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Balanced regimes also recognize the unique scale and nature of content on the internet, and give publishers and creators the ability to opt out from having their content used to train or ground a model. [...] Having a broad right to train and ground,...
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We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.
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xAI never trains on your API inputs or outputs without your explicit permission.
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Where User Data is used for GenAI model development, and exceptions to consent do not apply, organisations must obtain meaningful consent by providing AI-Specific Notifications. These notifications should, to the extent practicable, provide: [...] (d...
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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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Some data may be used to train AI models and improve search quality, unless you opt out through Account Settings.
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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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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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Government of Australia speaking through its delegate at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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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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Professional-services automation software company publishing a 2026 AI Use Policy.

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BigTime does not use Customer Data or identifiable AI Interactions data to train, fine-tune, retrain, or otherwise improve any AI, machine learning, generative AI, or large language models, whether operated by BigTime or by third parties.
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AI agent infrastructure company and publisher of the Swarms multi-agent framework.

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You can opt out of model improvement at any time, with no effect on price or features.
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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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Like your Search Services History, your saved media is also used to develop and improve Google services and technologies, including AI models and safety measures.
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You can opt out of your personal data being used to train and improve Character.ai’s AI models.
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Human Data Rights Coalition
Advocacy coalition focused on data ownership, consent, transparency, and rights in AI training.

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There is no single universal opt-out yet — which is exactly the enforceable right the Human Data Rights Coalition campaigns for.
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Electronic-signature and agreement-management software company.

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Customer may, at any time, and on a go-forward basis, elect to opt-out of Docusign’s AI Training utilizing the applicable “opt-out” toggle or feature within the applicable Docusign Service.
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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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AI-powered research repository service.

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Your data may be used to train the LLM models. If you prefer that it is not used, you can opt out while signing up for Marvin.
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Software company whose official June 2026 AI data-and-safety FAQ says customer data is not used to train AI models.

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By default, PDQ and its AI Subprocessors do not use Customer Data to train any models. We specifically have contractual agreements in place with our AI Subprocessors that prohibit the use of Customer Data to train their models.
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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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By allowing rightsholders to opt out, the mechanisms must remain technically viable.
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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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Kate Gilchrist
Head of Content Legal and Legal Operations at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

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An opt-out system as proposed by AI companies places burdens and costs on rights holders, as it would require ongoing surveillance to see whether copyright material is being used. We cannot scour the internet and ensure we are opting out on all of th...
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Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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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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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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