Key Takeaways
- •A notice does not itself block a crawler or remove training data.
- •Confirm ownership, authority and existing license limits.
- •Search indexing, answer retrieval and training are different activities.
- •Choose legal grounds only after checking coverage.
- •Report deployed controls separately from plans.
- •Review and deliver the notice through the appropriate channel.
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What Is Do-Not-Train AI Opt-Out Notice?
A written notice can communicate an AI-use restriction, supported rights reservation or privacy request to a provider.
Its legal effect depends on the content, rights, recipient, jurisdiction and implementation.
It can also ask for voluntary restrictions where no specific legal right is invoked.
Why This Matters Now
AI providers use content in different ways and operate controls with different purposes.
A mistaken crawler rule can affect uses you intended to allow.
An accurate record is more useful than claims of rights or implementation that cannot be supported.
The Legal Backbone
EU rights reservation
Check Article 4 and national implementation, the protected material and the reservation method. Article 3 and other exceptions remain relevant.
AI Act scope
Check provider status, market connection and transition dates before asserting an Article 53 duty.
Privacy requests
EU and UK objections depend on actual processing and grounds. California sale or sharing is not every AI use.
Copyright and contracts
Existing licenses, statutory exceptions and actual assent matter. A unilateral notice does not settle those questions.
Technical evidence
A preference signal or file tag is not proof of deployment, receipt or universal enforceability.
Make the notice specific
Identify the recipient, service and exact material.
Describe your rights and any license limits.
Select supported legal grounds independently.
Record actual controls and testing, distinguishing future plans.
Review, sign, deliver and retain the actual receipt.
When You Need This
To request exclusion from identified AI uses.
To communicate a supported rights reservation.
To exercise a covered personal-data objection or opt-out.
To document verified controls without claiming they guarantee blocking.
How to Fill Out Do-Not-Train AI Opt-Out Notice
1. Set the scope
Identify material, uses, rights and permissions.
2. Check the law
Confirm actual coverage and the grounds you can support.
3. Verify controls
Inspect deployed settings and exported files; record plans separately.
4. Review the notice
Remove unsupported facts and resolve authority questions.
5. Deliver and retain evidence
Use an appropriate contact or portal. This wizard does not send it.
Key Terms Defined
- Rights reservation
- An assertion within rights actually held, subject to applicable law and exceptions.
- Grounding
- Using retrieved information to support a model’s answer; distinct from training.
- GPC
- A browser preference signal with defined effects under applicable privacy law.
- Assent
- Agreement to terms, assessed from the relevant facts and law.
Related Documents
Deletion request
Addresses data already held, with its own grounds and exceptions. Use the separate AI data-deletion request when appropriate.
Crawler configuration
Changes website controls. Creating this notice does not configure them.
License agreement
Sets permissions between parties. A new notice does not automatically revoke earlier permissions.
Legal Authorities & Sources
This page is grounded in primary law. The statutes and official resources below are the authorities behind the guidance above. Verify the current text of any statute before relying on it.
- DSM Directive Articles 3 and 4
- EU AI Act Article 53 current consolidated text
- EU AI Act Article 111 transition
- RFC 9309 Robots Exclusion Protocol
- Google crawler and Google-Extended controls
- Perplexity crawler purposes
- IPTC Data Mining values and limits
- TDMRep Community Group report
- Irish DPC Article 21 guidance
- ICO right to object, updated July 23 2026
- CPPA opt-out scope and timing
- US Copyright Act section 107
- Nguyen v Barnes and Noble, Ninth Circuit
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