Does Otter.ai train AI on your data?
Yes
“Improve and monitor the Services, including training our proprietary AI technology on de-identified audio recordings and on transcriptions (which may contain Personal Information)”
From Otter.ai's privacy policy , checked Oct 28, 2026. In Meeting Notes, 4 of 8 tools whose policies answer this say they don't train on customer content.
The rest of the data policy
Data retention
Not stated
Where data is stored
Not stated
Security and compliance
None stated
Similar tools that say they don't train on your data
Fireflies.ai“We do not use personal information for AI model training and we contractually prohibit our vendors from using this information for their own model training.”
Jamie“No. Your meeting data is never used to train AI models, not by Jamie and not by any of our model providers.”
Tactiq“Azure OpenAI will not use data submitted via their API to train or improve their models.”
Meetily“Does Meetily use my data for training AI models? No, never.”
Gong“trust that your data is never used to train generative models”
Otter.ai and your data: common questions
Does Otter.ai use my data to train AI?
Yes. Otter.ai's policy says: "Improve and monitor the Services, including training our proprietary AI technology on de-identified audio recordings and on transcriptions (which may contain Personal Information)" (checked Oct 28, 2026).
Which meeting notes tools don't train on your data?
Among the closest alternatives, Fireflies.ai, Jamie, Tactiq, Meetily, Gong say in their policies that they don't use customer content for training.
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