Does Reddit train on your data?
Reddit's privacy policy names OpenAI's ChatGPT, and says third parties pay licensing fees for bulk content. It never once uses the word "train".
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"That content and information may also be available in search results on internet search engines like Google or in responses provided by an AI chatbot like OpenAI's ChatGPT as well as reshared by others without permission or where Reddit has no control."
- 30 Aug 2026
- All accounts
- global
- Saved by hand — not re-read automatically
- 380AE438…9EEF
Why this is still UNCLEAR: Effective 1 July 2026, and in 47,000 characters it uses "train" not once. Neither "machine learning" nor "artificial intelligence" appears at all, and "model" appears zero times. "AI" appears exactly once, in the sentence quoted here — which tells you your public posts may turn up in ChatGPT's answers, framed as where your words can end up rather than as something Reddit does with them. Alongside it the policy says Reddit "require[s] third parties to pay licensing fees for access to larger quantities of content and information", which describes the commercial arrangement without saying what those parties may do with what they buy. Both sentences circle the question. Neither answers it, and no sentence in the document does.
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 Reddit AI training
Plan by plan, from what Reddit'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
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. Effective 1 July 2026, and in 47,000 characters it uses "train" not once. Neither "machine learning" nor "artificial intelligence" appears at all, and "model" appears zero times. "AI" appears exactly once, in the sentence quoted here — which tells you your public posts may turn up in ChatGPT's answers, framed as where your words can end up rather than as something Reddit does with them. Alongside it the policy says Reddit "require[s] third parties to pay licensing fees for access to larger quantities of content and information", which describes the commercial arrangement without saying what those parties may do with what they buy. Both sentences circle the question. Neither answers it, and no sentence in the document does.
What this policy has done since we started watching
The record starts here. Reddit'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 haven't yet written to Reddit about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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