X, formerly Twitter, has automatically enabled a default setting that allows the company to use users’ posts to train its Grok AI
The good news is that you can deactivate it and delete your conversation history with the AI.
According to the platform’s settings, the platform can “utilize your X post” and your user interactions, inputs, and results with Grok for training and fine-tuning purposes” if enabled.
Additionally, X explains that “this implies that our service provider, xAI, may also have access to your interactions, inputs, and results for these uses.”
The setting cannot be turned off through the mobile app of X; however, it can be turned off on the social network’s desktop version.
How to turn off the data-sharing settings of X:
- Navigate to the Settings page on your desktop in X.
- Click on the “Privacy and safety” icon.
- Cho”se “Grok.”
- Uncheck”the box.
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Once the setting has been deactivated, you may delete your conversation history with the AI by selecting the “Delete conversation history” “con.
Elon Musk, the owner o” X, announced earlier this week that xAI had initiated the training of its Grok large language model using “the most powerful AI training”cluster in the world.”
Musk declared that the AI model would become “the most powerful AI in the world by every metric” by December [2024]. It is ev”dent that Musk and X intended to use more than the potent training cluster to train its AI by also utilizing users’ past tweets and posts.
Lastusers’, Meta informed EU and U.K. users of an impending change enabling it to train its AI using public content on Facebook and Instagram.
X is not the only social network that has employed user data to train its AI. Ultimately, the organization yielded to regulatory pressure and suspended its initiatives.
