If you use a personal Adobe account, you can easily opt out of content analysis. Open Adobe's privacy pagescroll down to the Content analysis for product improvement section and click the Off switch. If you have a company or school account, you will be automatically logged out.
Amazon: AWS
Amazon Web Services AI services, such as Amazon Rekognition or Amazon CodeWhisperer, may use customer data to improve the company's tools, but it is possible to opt out of the AI training. This used to be one of the most complicated processes on the list, but it has been streamlined in recent months. This Amazon support page details the complete process for unsubscribing your organization.
Figma
Figma, a popular design software, can use your data for model training. If your account is licensed through an Organization or Enterprise plan, you will be automatically signed out. On the other hand, Starter and Professional accounts are logged in by default. This setting can be changed at the team level by opening the settings in the AI tab and disable it Substantive training.
Google Gemini
For users of Google's chatbot Gemini, conversations can sometimes be selected for human review to improve the AI model. However, canceling is easy. Open Gemini in your browser, click Activityand select the Switch off dropdown menu. Here you can simply disable Gemini Apps activity, or you can log out and delete your conversation data. Although in most cases this means that future chats cannot be reviewed by humans, already selected data will not be deleted during this process. According to Google's privacy hub for Gemini, these chats can last for three years.
Grammatically
Grammarly has updated its policy so that personal accounts can now opt out of AI training. Do this by going to BillThan Institutionsand turn the Product improvement and training switch off. Does your account have a business or education license? You will then be automatically unsubscribed.
Grok AI (X)
Kate O'Flaherty wrote a great piece for WIRED about Grok AI and protecting your privacy on X, the platform on which the chatbot operates. It's another situation where millions of users of a website woke up one day and were automatically signed up for AI training with minimal notice. If you still have an X account, you can opt out of using your data to train Grok by visiting the Settings and privacy section then Privacy and security. Open the Grok taband then disable the data sharing option.
HubSpot
HubSpot, a popular marketing and sales software platform, automatically uses customer data to improve its machine learning model. Unfortunately, there's no button you can press to disable the use of data for AI training. You have to send an email to [email protected] with a message requesting that you disable the data associated with your account.
Users of the career networking website were surprised to learn in September that their data might be used to train AI models. “Ultimately, people want that edge in their careers, and what our gen AI services do is give them that help,” said Eleanor Crum, a spokesperson for LinkedIn.
You can unsubscribe from new LinkedIn messages used for AI training by visiting your profile and opening the Institutions. Tap Data privacy and turn off the slider labeled Use my data to train AI models for content creation.
OpenAI: ChatGPT and Dall-E
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People reveal all kinds of personal information while using a chatbot. OpenAI offers a number of options for what happens to what you say to ChatGPT, including allowing future AI models not to be trained on the content. “We provide users with a number of easily accessible ways to manage their data, including self-service tools for accessing, exporting and deleting personal information through ChatGPT. That includes easily accessible options to opt out of using their content to train models,” said Taya Christianson, a spokesperson for OpenAI. (Options vary slightly depending on your account type, and enterprise customer data is not used to train models).
