Atlassian Now Trains Its AI on Your Work by Default — and Full Opt-Out Is an Enterprise Feature
If you run a team on Jira or Confluence, the deal changed on 17 August and the change was opt-out. From that date, by Atlassian’s own account, the content your team writes into its Cloud products — Confluence pages, Jira tickets, the descriptions and comments where the actual work lives — is used by default to train Rovo, Atlassian’s AI assistant. You were not asked to opt in. You were, at best,…
Atlassian now trains its AI assistant, Rovo, on team members' work data by default, with a limited opt-out option available only on Enterprise plans. In-app data, such as Confluence page titles, Jira work-item descriptions, and comments, is on by default for Free and Standard plans, and off for Premium and Enterprise plans. Metadata, which includes derived signals like readability scores, task classifications, and sprint dates, is on for all plans but can only be turned off for Enterprise plans.
The cheapest plan, Free, has the most default data contribution, while Enterprise users have the most control over their data. Opt-out is available but requires an organization administrator to navigate to the appropriate settings and disable in-app data contribution. However, metadata contribution cannot be turned off even with full admin privileges on plans where it is not already disabled.
This change prioritizes AI performance over user privacy, with the most vulnerable users paying the least for the feature.
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