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

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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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  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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  Google

  Search and advertising company

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  votes For and says:

  `Google-Extended` is a standalone product token that web publishers can use to manage whether content [...] may be used for training future generations of Gemini models.

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  Substack, Inc.

  Newsletter publishing platform company

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Marni Greenberg

  SoundCloud SVP, head of communications

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  Should we ever consider using user content to train generative AI models, we would introduce clear opt-out mechanisms in advance.

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  Data Protection Commission (Ireland)

  Irish data protection authority

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Anthropic

  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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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  votes For and says:

  ChatGPT, for instance, improves by further training on the conversations people have with it, unless you opt out.

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  WordPress.com Staff

  WordPress.com editorial staff

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  votes For and says:

  We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing an opt-out toggle.

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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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  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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  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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  votes For and says:

  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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  Dame Caroline Dinenage

  UK Conservative MP

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  votes Against and says:

  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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