How to stop AI companies from training on your data
News AI How to stop AI companies from training on your data Every major model uses your conversations as training material by default. Doing so takes about a minute per service and, because personalization and memory are managed by separate settings, it shouldn't have any impact on your day-to-day use. There is one platform that's an exception to this: Meta.
- ▪News AI How to stop AI companies from training on your data Every major model uses your conversations as training material by default.
- ▪Doing so takes about a minute per service and, because personalization and memory are managed by separate settings, it shouldn't have any impact on your day-to-day use.
- ▪There is one platform that's an exception to this: Meta.
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| Original publisher | Engadget |
| Canonical URL | https://www.engadget.com/2268598/how-to-stop-ai-companies-training-your-data/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:15:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-28T15:27:23.499Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-28T15:27:23.499Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | w_t1NFIZNx7b · 1 stories |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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News AI How to stop AI companies from training on your data Every major model uses your conversations as training material by default. By Luke James Sept. 28, 2026 11:15 am EST Primakov/Shutterstock Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Grok all have one thing in common: Not how deep they bury their subscription cancellation options into the settings menu, but how they all use consumer conversations to train their models. Unless you opt out, that is. Doing so takes about a minute per service and, because personalization and memory are managed by separate settings, it shouldn't have any impact on your day-to-day use. There is one platform that's an exception to this: Meta.
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