As Generative AI is becoming more and more prevalent across a wide range of platforms, tech companies such as Meta, Google and Adobe, are using your data to train their large language models (LLMs). There are a range of ethical and privacy reasons on why you might not want your data used to train generative AI. Some, but not all, of the these companies allow you to opt out of having your data harvest to be used in the development of their generative AI products. Frustratingly a lot of these products such as your social media profiles and email accounts harvest your data by default, and you have to opt out.
Additionally if your data has already been used to train LLMs, it's unlikely that you will be able to have it removed from their datasets. These opt-out features also don't necessarily protect your data from harvested by external parties, who may do this without the companies or your knowledge or consent. This page is more about limiting how much your data is being used to train your data rather than prevent it entirely. Ideally the best way to help limit this is to use alternative products that don't use your data at all to train AI, such as using BlueSky instead of X/Twitter or Signal instead of WhatsApp.
This page primarily uses the desktop version of these products/platforms to turn off AI features, but it should be possible to follow much the same steps to turn these off in the app version of these products.
Adobe uses any documents saved to their platform to train their generative AI features. You must opt out of this. To do this login to your Adobe account on the Adobe homepage. Click your profile which should appear in the right-hand side near the top.
Click on Manage account. You will be brought to a new page. Click on the "Account and Security" dropdown menu and then click "Data and Privacy settings"
From here you will see a heading mentioning Content Analysis. Turn the toggle for this off. It may look slightly different from the screenshot as Adobe has changed the phrasing for this multiple times. It's also probably best to turn all the features off in this section for privacy purposes.
If you have received your Adobe account through your school or workplace, it may be turned off by default, and you might not have the ability to allow data sharing, which is great!
Google has introduced their Gemini AI into Gmail. They frame it as a feature that will make your life easier, adding events from your emails to your calendar, reminding you of delivery dates, and referencing files in your Google Drive, but to do this it needs to train itself off all the contents of your email, email attachments, Drive and Calendar. Google calls this Smart Features.
To turn this off click the gear icon 
in the top righthand corner of your Gmail. Then click "See all settings.".
Scroll down on the General tab until you see "Smart Features" Click the check box to turn it off.
You will get a pop up asking if you're sure and the page will have to reload. Confirm this choice. It's probably best to turn off any other feature that has the work "Smart" in it just in case.
Login to Linkedin and then click your profile. A dropdown menu will appear and click "Settings & Privacy".
You will be brought to a new page. On the left-hand side, click Data privacy
On this new set of options that show up in the middle of the page click on Data for Generative AI Improvement
From here just simply toggle this option so it's set to off as seen in the screenshot below
Frustratingly Tumblr sort of hides this feature. It's not under Settings like you might think. To turn off AI training login into your tumblr and on the left-hand side of the webpage click the name of your blog.
The blog settings then appear on the right-hand side.
Click on blog settings and then you'll be brought to a new page. Scroll down until you see Visibility. Then check the toggle for "Prevent third-party sharing" as in the screenshot below. You may have to do this more than once if you have more than one blog.
Frustratingly it seems that you must disable AI features chat by chat. You can't just blanket disable Meta AI from WhatsApp. Click on the person or group name of a chat and to open chat settings and then go to “Advanced Chat Privacy” and toggle it on. This prevents WhatsApp from using Meta AI in that chat.
