Does Discord train on your data?
Discord never uses the word "train" and never says "AI". It does say it builds models from reported and widely available content, to detect prohibited conduct. Beyond that it does not say.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"We may also use content posted in larger spaces to help us develop, improve, and power our services, including features that help you catch up on conversations and safety features that identify harmful content on the services and support the enforcement of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines ."
- 1 Mar 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts (free and Nitro)
- global
- Internet Archive copy
- 651EAE98…AEA5
Why this is still UNCLEAR: The captured policy contains no standalone use of "AI", no "artificial intelligence", and no form of "train" at all. Until 1 September 2026 this entry concluded from that the policy "never bridges" content use and model training, and that the question "cannot be determined either way". That went too far, and a re-audit caught it: the document does bridge them once, in the sentence Discord uses to describe moderation. It says it may use "content reported to us, content that violates our Terms of Service, and certain other content widely available on the service (such as public posts, usernames, avatars, banners, user profiles, server names, server icons, and server banners), to create systems and models that can be automated to more swiftly detect, categorize, and take action against prohibited content or conduct". Building models out of user content is what this site asks about, and that is an answer — a narrow one. It covers content you or someone else reported, content that broke the rules, and material already public; reported content can include private messages, which is the part worth knowing. What it does not cover is everything else. For ordinary messages that nobody reports, and for any purpose other than safety enforcement, the document still says nothing, and the clause quoted below — use of content in "larger spaces" to "develop, improve, and power our services" — stops short of saying models are built from it. The other adjacent language is a reference to "automated technologies such as machine learning systems that help us power and improve our services", framed as a description of processing methods under GDPR legal bases. Answered for anti-abuse models, unanswered for the rest.
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.
- Not established
- Not stated
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- Not established
How to opt out of Discord AI training
Plan by plan, from what Discord'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 accounts (free and Nitro)
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. The captured policy contains no standalone use of "AI", no "artificial intelligence", and no form of "train" at all. Until 1 September 2026 this entry concluded from that the policy "never bridges" content use and model training, and that the question "cannot be determined either way". That went too far, and a re-audit caught it: the document does bridge them once, in the sentence Discord uses to describe moderation. It says it may use "content reported to us, content that violates our Terms of Service, and certain other content widely available on the service (such as public posts, usernames, avatars, banners, user profiles, server names, server icons, and server banners), to create systems and models that can be automated to more swiftly detect, categorize, and take action against prohibited content or conduct". Building models out of user content is what this site asks about, and that is an answer — a narrow one. It covers content you or someone else reported, content that broke the rules, and material already public; reported content can include private messages, which is the part worth knowing. What it does not cover is everything else. For ordinary messages that nobody reports, and for any purpose other than safety enforcement, the document still says nothing, and the clause quoted below — use of content in "larger spaces" to "develop, improve, and power our services" — stops short of saying models are built from it. The other adjacent language is a reference to "automated technologies such as machine learning systems that help us power and improve our services", framed as a description of processing methods under GDPR legal bases. Answered for anti-abuse models, unanswered for the rest.
What this policy has done since we started watching
4 changes detected since 1 Jan 2023. Each one is a diff between two archived copies, and each links to the passage that moved.
- MajorTouched jurisdiction, opt-outs, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and training.
- Touched jurisdiction, opt-outs, retention, what's collected, sub-processors, plan tiers and training.
- Touched jurisdiction and sub-processors.
- Touched jurisdiction, opt-outs, retention, what's collected, sub-processors, plan tiers and training.
Vendor response
We wrote to Discord on 21 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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