AI data, training & privacy · Specialist

AI opt-out

ELI5

A way for a person or rightsholder to refuse particular collection, training or use where available.

Used in conversation

“The team needs to address the AI opt-out before using the tool or material.”

Definition

A mechanism allowing a person or rightsholder to refuse specified collection, training or use where available.

Here “AI opt-out” means: A mechanism allowing a person or rightsholder to refuse specified collection, training or use where available.

Pitch context

You may encounter “AI opt-out” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.