How to Opt Out of WordPress Ai
Adrian Vicol
WordPress now lets users decide if their data can be used for AI training. Follow this guide to learn how to opt-out and protect your data.
On Feb 27, 2024, WordPress released a statement announcing its intention to give users a chance to decide if they want their data used for training AI or not. In this guide, we'll share step-by-step directions on how to stop AI from training with your data on WordPress.
Step-by-step tips to stop AI data training on WordPress
These steps are easy to follow and by the end, you would have opted out of WordPress data training policy.
- Step 1: Log in to your WordPress site.
- Step 2: Go to “Settings”
- Step 3: Next, click on “General”
- Step 4: Go to “Privacy Section”
- Step 5: In the Privacy Settings tab, toggle the switch that says “Prevent third-party data sharing” option.
💡 Pro tip: You can skip these steps by clicking here.
You have successfully opted-out of this feature.
💡 Pro tip: If you have previously activated the “Discourage search engines” options, then you don't need to do this. Also, you need to repeat these steps for each of your WordPress sites if you have more than one.
How to delete your Wordpress personal data?
If you opt out of AI processing, that does not mean that Wordpress no longer keeps your personal data. It has just stopped using it to train their AI models. The only way to get your data deleted from Wordpress is to ask for deletion.
Learn how to send a data deletion request to any company !
How do I know which companies hold my personal data and how do I ask for data deletion?
Finding the companies that have your data takes a lot of time and it’s quite an impossible task. Filling in the Data Deletion Request template takes time. Going on their website and through their privacy policy to discover the right email to send it to is taxing. Doing this for 100+ companies is near to impossible.
That’s why we created AgainstData.com The app shows you which companies have your data, who those companies are and allows you to request Data Deletion with one simple click. Plus, it makes monitoring the conversations super easy.
If you want to use AgainstData.com to find out which companies hold your data and send them Data Deletion Requests, simply follow these steps:
- Go to AgainstData.com
- Sign-in with your Gmail account
- See which companies have your data
- Ask for deletion with 1 click