Linktree Updated Its Terms to Let AI Train on Your Profile

Per reporting surfaced on Reddit's r/artificial community, Linktree has updated its terms of service to permit user content � bios, links, posted material � to be collected for AI training purposes, with no prominent disclosure to its tens of millions of users.

The move follows a pattern that has become depressingly familiar. A platform with massive user adoption quietly amends its legal language, buries the change in a ToS update email, and waits to see if anyone notices. Linktree's particular exposure here is its user base: musicians, independent creators, small businesses, and nonprofits who use the service as their primary web presence and have no legal team scanning for this.

The practical consequence is that profile content, link descriptions, and any text users have written to represent themselves publicly is now fair game for model training under Linktree's terms. Whether any AI company has actually ingested it yet is a separate question.

Regulators in the EU are already wrestling with exactly this class of problem under the AI Act's data governance provisions. In the US, there is no equivalent floor. Until there is, opt-out buried in ToS will remain the industry standard.