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Publicly Available Data Collection for Model Training

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Broad collection of publicly available internet data for AI training raises copyright, consent, and data accuracy concerns, and may include personal information about individuals who have never used Character.AI's services.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Character.AI collects a wide range of personal data including chat messages, voice recordings, and inferred sensitive information, and uses this data to train its AI models and deliver targeted advertising. A particularly notable provision allows the platform to retain and keep active any publicly shared AI character even if the user deletes their account, meaning some user-created content may persist on the platform indefinitely. You can submit a data deletion or rights request at https://support.character.ai/hc/en-us/requests/new or by emailing privacy@character.ai.

How other platforms handle this

Anthropic Medium

Anthropic obtains personal data from third party sources in order to train our models. Specifically, we train our models using data from the following sources: Publicly available information via the Internet; Datasets that we obtain through commercial agreements with third party businesses; Data tha...

PlanetScale Medium

When you visit the Careers portion of our websites, we collect the information that you provide to us in connection with your job application. This includes but is not limited to business and personal contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history and other in...

American Airlines Medium

American does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children – persons under the age of 13, or another age if required by applicable law – other than when required to comply with the law or for safety and security reasons. Due to the nature of our Services, we may collect travel i...

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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 Character.ai Privacy Policy

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
ePrivacy Directive
European Union
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
UK GDPR
United Kingdom
Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
Character.ai Privacy Policy
Entity
Character.AI
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 8, 2026
Last verified
May 11, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-006913
Document ID
CA-D-00120
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
6ad8585d7de8834f45d45863325899d3602d6584f208eff63eb099fffa024748
Analysis generated
May 8, 2026 14:58 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Character.AI
Document: Character.ai Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-006913
Captured: 2026-05-08 14:58:37 UTC
SHA-256: 6ad8585d7de8834f…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/characterai/characterai-privacy-policy/publicly-available-data-collection-for-model-training/
Accessed: May 14, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Severity
Medium
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Character.AI's Publicly Available Data Collection for Model Training clause do?

Broad collection of publicly available internet data for AI training raises copyright, consent, and data accuracy concerns, and may include personal information about individuals who have never used Character.AI's services.

Is ConductAtlas affiliated with Character.AI?

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