Character.AI collects publicly available information from the internet to train its AI models, in addition to data collected directly from users.
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The use of publicly available internet data for commercial AI model training has become a subject of regulatory and legal scrutiny, including questions about intellectual property rights and whether publicly available data retains privacy protections under applicable law.
Interpretive note: The policy does not specify what types of publicly available data are collected or from which sources, creating uncertainty about the scope of this collection practice and the applicable compliance obligations.
This new provision clarifies that Character.AI uses publicly available internet data for model training, expanding the scope of data sources beyond user-provided content.
View full change record →Information about you that is publicly available online may be collected and used by Character.AI for AI model training purposes, beyond what you directly provide to the platform.
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"We also collect information that is available on the Internet or from other publicly available sources to evaluate and improve our Services, including for model training and development.Excerpt from Character.AI's Privacy Policy
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The use of publicly available internet data for commercial AI model training has become a subject of regulatory and legal scrutiny, including questions about intellectual property rights and whether publicly available data retains privacy protections under applicable law.
Information about you that is publicly available online may be collected and used by Character.AI for AI model training purposes, beyond what you directly provide to the platform.
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