Medium helps you to share your preferences with third-party AI companies about how they should—or shouldn’t—access the stories you publish on Medium. You can learn more about what your options mean in this post in the official Medium blog.
How to find your AI settings
Web
- Click on your profile picture in the top-right corner and click Settings
- On Settings → Account, scroll to Third-party AI and your stories
- Select to open your preferences, and make changes if you’d like to
iOS and Android:
- Tap your avatar on the bottom navigation bar to visit your profile
- Tap the settings icon in the top-right corner to open settings
- Tap Account to open your account settings in a new view
- On Settings → Account, scroll to Third-party AI and your stories
- Select to open your preferences, and make changes if you’d like to
Your options
Prioritize maximum reach (Default)
Ask AI companies not to train on your stories, unless doing so would also stop them from directly crediting your work and sending readers to it. Your stories still appear in traditional search and AI-assisted search features. The default option additionally means that AI products can directly credit you and link to your Medium stories. Your stories should not appear in training data unless that would prevent you from receiving credit and traffic via their AI products.
Minimize third-party training
Ask all AI companies not to train on your stories, even if it means they may no longer directly credit your work and send readers to it. Your stories still appear in traditional search and AI-assisted search features. This option, however, means that some AI products (which don’t separate training consent from citation) are unlikely to directly credit you and link to your Medium stories. Your stories should not appear in training data.
What these options don't control
These options don’t impact how your story shows up in search engines, on social media platforms, or on Medium. This preference is only about how third-party AI companies access your stories for training, and the impact that it has on your reach via AI products. Your stories may still appear in AI-assisted search features in traditional search engines.