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

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  Figma

  Design collaboration software company

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  If Customer’s “Content Training” toggle is on and an administrative user [...] toggles it off, new Customer Content [...] will not be used to train AI models. Unverified source

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source

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  WordPress.com Staff

  WordPress.com editorial staff

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  We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing an opt-out toggle. Unverified source (2024)

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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 Unverified source (2024)

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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 Unverified source (2026)

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  European Data Protection Board (EDPB)

  EU data protection authority network

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  creating an opt-out list [...] allows data subjects to object to the collection of their data [...] before the data collection occurs Unverified source (2024)

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  California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)

  California privacy regulator

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  votes For and says:

  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 Unverified source (2023)

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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 Unverified source (2024)

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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 Unverified source

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  Adobe

  Software company

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  give creators the option to keep their content out of AI training datasets. Unverified source (2023)

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  Google

  Search and advertising company

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  `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. Unverified source (2026)

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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. Unverified source (2024)

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  Max Wilkinson

  UK Liberal Democrat MP

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  Throughout the debates on data legislation, we have consistently argued that consent must not be an afterthought but should be the default. If a human being has created something, they have the right to know how it is being used and to be fairly reco... more Unverified source (2025)

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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... more Unverified source (2025)

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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... more Unverified source (2024)

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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 ... more Unverified source (2023)

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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 [...]. Unverified source

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  Meta

  Social media and AI company

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  People based in the EU who use our platforms can choose to object to their public data being used for training purposes. Unverified source (2025)

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  LinkedIn

  Professional networking platform company.

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  votes For and says:

  Yes, you can opt out of having your LinkedIn data and content you create [...] used to train GAI models that generate content [...]. Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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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 ... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Sam Gregory

  Executive Director, WITNESS

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  votes For and says:

  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... more Unverified source (2024)

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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... more Unverified source (2024)

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  noyb (None of Your Business)

  European digital rights nonprofit

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  This leaves users with only the right to object (opt-out) under Article 21 GDPR. Unverified source (2025)

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  Tony Stubblebine

  CEO of Medium

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  We are opting all of Medium out of AI training sets for now. Unverified source (2023)

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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 Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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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 Unverified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Rachel Kim

  Copyright Alliance policy writer

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  This makes opt-out systems meaningless for rightsholders who don’t want their works to be used to train these GAI models. Unverified source (2025)

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  Tom Weldon

  UK publishing CEO

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  – The principle that rightsholders should decide when, how and where their work is used and be fairly compensated for that holds good and does not need to be reversed in the way the government’s preferred Option 3 envisages i.e. with the automatic ri... more Unverified source (2025)

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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... more Unverified source (2024)

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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. Unverified source (2023)

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