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Human data rights are the fundamental rights people hold over the personal data they generate — the right to own it, to be fairly compensated when it creates value, to transparency about how it is used, and to opt out of AI training. The Human Data Rights Coalition organizes around these four rights to ensure that as AI is built on human data, people — not only AI companies — share in the value it creates.

Today there is no universal law guaranteeing individuals payment when public data is used to train AI, but that is changing fast. Content-licensing deals (Reddit–Google, Shutterstock–OpenAI, and news-publisher agreements) and 2024–2026 copyright settlements show a clear shift toward paying for training data. The Human Data Rights Coalition advocates for a legally recognized right to fair compensation, including data dividends and collective licensing, so that value flows back to the people whose data makes AI possible.

You opt out per-platform today: in ChatGPT, Settings → Data Controls → turn off "Improve the model for everyone"; on Meta, LinkedIn, and X, use the AI/data-use settings in your privacy controls; and add User-agent: GPTBot / ClaudeBot disallow rules to your website's robots.txt. There is no single universal opt-out yet — which is exactly why the coalition campaigns for an enforceable, one-step right to opt out of AI training.

Legally, ownership is contested: individuals and creators generally hold copyright in original work, but AI companies claim that scraping public data for training is permissible, and users rarely own the trained model. The Human Data Rights Coalition argues that personal data should be treated as your intellectual property, with enforceable rights to control, license, and withdraw it.

A data dividend is a recurring payment made to individuals in return for the value their data generates for AI and platform companies — a data-era analogue to Alaska's oil dividend or a universal basic income funded by the data economy. The coalition supports data dividends and collective bargaining as practical mechanisms to deliver the right to fair compensation.

The Human Data Rights Coalition is a movement of advocates, technologists, and organizations campaigning for four fundamental rights — data ownership, fair compensation, transparency, and the right to opt out — in the age of AI. You can join the movement, read the four rights, or follow developments in our news.