Does Medium train on your data?
Medium's vendors may train machine-learning models on what you write, and may scan and review your content and messages to do it.
No opt-out found in this policy
"to train, test, and improve technology, including machine learning models and algorithms."
- 1 Aug 2026
- All accounts
- global
- Internet Archive copy
- 4D220884…E3A7
How we read it: The training here is done by third parties rather than by Medium, which does not make it narrower: the same passage says those vendors, service providers and consultants "may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata". A publishing platform holds drafts as well as posts, and private notes between writers and editors. No opt-out is named.
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.
- None offered
- Not stated
- 88 / 100
- Not stated
- Unknown
How to opt out of Medium AI training
Plan by plan, from what Medium'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
No opt-out is stated in the policy on file for Medium.
What this policy has done since we started watching
The record starts here. Medium's policy was first captured on 1 Aug 2026, and there's no earlier copy to compare it against, so this verdict has no history behind it yet. From now on every re-read is diffed against that copy, and anything that moves appears here.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We wrote to Medium on 1 Sept 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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