Does The New York Times train on your data?
The New York Times says information it collects may be used to train AI models — including recordings of your chats with its support staff.
No opt-out found in this policy
"This information may be used to train AI models for these purposes."
- 30 Aug 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts and subscriptions
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 9EE90C60…A097
How we read it: Notable because of who is saying it. The Times is in litigation with OpenAI over the training of models on its journalism, and its own privacy policy reserves the same use of its readers. It is stated twice: once of collected information generally, and once of recorded support conversations — "Your chat session will be recorded for quality assurance and training and may be used for training AI models." A third passage covers training systems on reported content and content available on the Times services. 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 The New York Times AI training
Plan by plan, from what The New York Times'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 and subscriptions
No opt-out is stated in the policy on file for The New York Times.
What this policy has done since we started watching
The record starts here. The New York Times's policy was first captured on 30 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 The New York Times 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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