# License Discord data to AI: terms and buyers

> Searched how to sell Discord data to AI? Licensing it is unclear. No buyer we read names Discord, and its Terms give the license to Discord.

By Matt Burns, Vaultfish. Canonical: https://vaultfish.com/answers/sell-discord-data-to-ai  
Published: 2026-09-06  
Updated: 2026-10-14

## The short answer

License Discord data to AI? I found no buyer that names Discord. Discord's Terms say your content is yours and give Discord a broad license. The Terms say nothing about AI training. You have no clear license to members' messages, only to your own posts.

Discord holds a different kind of record from a company's own tools. The messages are written by members, and many of them are not employees.

## Do any of the companies name Discord?

I checked three company pages. [Troveo](https://www.troveo.ai/business-data) lists Slack, Teams, Google Chat and Zoom under chat and messaging. [Mercor](https://www.mercor.com/data/) lists Slack and MS Teams. micro1's page does not name Discord either.

That is a negative finding from public pages, and a buyer may still take a private community's archive if asked. My [Slack data page](/answers/sell-slack-data-to-ai) shows what buyers say about workplace chat they do name.

## What do Discord's Terms say about content?

[Discord's Terms](https://discord.com/terms) say your content is yours, and that you give Discord a license to it.

The license covers using, reproducing, distributing, creating derivative works of, displaying and performing the content, for providing, developing and improving Discord's services. It is worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable.

The Terms contain no sentence on AI training or machine learning, in my reading.

## Who holds rights in Discord members' messages?

Under Discord's Terms, each person keeps ownership of what they post. The license in the Terms runs to Discord. I found no clause giving a server owner a license to members' messages.

That is my reading of one document, and counsel decides what it means for a given server. The same question comes up for [shared Slack channels](/answers/can-i-sell-slack-connect-or-shared-channel-messages-to-ai) and for [a shutting-down company's Slack](/answers/can-a-shutting-down-company-sell-its-slack-to-ai).

## What did I not verify?

I could not open Discord's Developer Policy, which governs bots and API use, because the page blocked my fetch. I did not find a rule for how a server owner exports server history. Discord's data request page also blocked my fetch.

Talk to a privacy or commercial lawyer in your state before you sign. The [rights check](/rights-check) lists the first questions.

micro1 may pay us a referral fee if a company we introduce goes ahead with it. [How we are paid](https://vaultfish.com/disclosure)

Figure: comparison of What Discord's Terms say about content: Ownership (Stays with the user), Discord's license (Broad, to Discord), AI training (emphasized: Silent in the Terms, Not mentioned). Discord's Terms say nothing about AI training, though they give Discord a broad license to user content.

_Vaultfish helps you run the process. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. If you need counsel who knows this area, we can point you to one._

## Sources

- [Troveo](https://www.troveo.ai/business-data)
- [Mercor](https://www.mercor.com/data/)
- [Discord's Terms](https://discord.com/terms)