Don't Train On Me

How to opt your Slack workspace out of AI training

Messages and files, for platform-level machine learning.

Only an owner can do this, so check before you spend time on it.

A request they can refuseEffort: highNot yet re-verified
Open the Slack setting

Who can do this

A workspace owner or primary owner. An individual member cannot opt themselves out, and telling them otherwise wastes their time. Detect this and say it up front.

What they use

Messages, files, and usage data feed platform-level machine learning such as search ranking and recommendations. Slack states that customer content does not train generative models sold to other customers.

Opt out

Historically this has been an email from a workspace owner to Slack's feedback address naming the workspace URL and requesting exclusion, rather than a setting in the admin panel. Verify the current mechanism before shipping this entry as actionable.

If you are not an owner

Mark it blocked, not skipped. Blocked means someone else has to act, and it should show up differently in the summary.

The old help article 404s. Workspace owners only, and historically by email rather than a setting. Confirm the current mechanism before treating this as actionable.

Slack is one of thirty-one

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