Does Airbnb train on your data?
Airbnb develops and improves AI models using your personal information, and says so plainly. It also names an AI-specific preference you can set to stop it.
A self-serve opt-out exists
"In addition, if you do not want Airbnb to use your personal information to develop and improve AI models that power certain features on Airbnb, you can set your preferences as described here ."
- 5 Sept 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All guests and hosts
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 3E241823…4865
How we read it: Unusually forthcoming for this list. The policy states the use in its own words — "using AI technologies that we develop and improve using your personal information" — and then, rather than leaving a reader to infer a control, writes one out and says what it is for. D rather than C only because "as described here" links out to a page this monitor does not archive, so where the preference lives cannot be quoted or dated from the capture. UK and EEA readers have a second route: the Outside the United States supplement puts AI development on legitimate interest and grants an objection right, though Airbnb "will review your objection" rather than simply honour it.
AI models, preferences, opt-out, account settings, by default, default, controls
What the document does offer
- "if you do not want Airbnb to use your personal information to develop and improve AI models that power certain features on Airbnb, you can set your preferences as described here" — specific to AI models, and the route is a link out
- "We also offer many privacy controls directly within your Account settings"
- "In some cases, you may opt-out of this sharing in your account settings" — third-party linked accounts, not training
- location and device permissions, which govern collection rather than use
- "default" appears zero times in the capture
Why none of it applies: The sentence is better than most: it names AI models rather than "improving our services", and it addresses the reader directly. What it does not do is say where the preference lives or which way it is set — both are behind "as described here". So a reader of the policy learns a preference exists, and has to leave to find it and to discover whether it needs changing.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Self-serve toggle
- Not stated
- 52 / 100
- Not stated
- Unknown
How to opt out of Airbnb AI training
Plan by plan, from what Airbnb's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All guests and hosts
Yes. Airbnb has a self-serve setting.
- Open Menu, then Account settings, then Privacy.
- Under Data privacy, untick "Help improve AI-powered features" (the tick means on).
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of Airbnb's documents since 19 Aug 2026 and re-read them since, across 6 captures of 3 documents. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the documents, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Vendor response
We wrote to Airbnb on 24 Aug 2026, quoting the clauses above and inviting a correction. Nothing has come back. That's published because a company declining to comment on its own policy is something a reader should know, and because the invitation should be on the record whether or not it's taken up. Any reply goes here, word for word.
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