Kevin Beaumont
PSA: LinkedIn are training AI models and selling data for training AI models from your posts, and the setting is enabled by default. I suggest you disable it unless Microsoft pay you.
Sep 18, 2024 at 5:57amWeb
Show threadKevin BeaumontSep 18, 2024
As an update to this, the media are uncovering that LinkedIn began training AI models on user posts both without
telling customers and without updating their terms of service (they still haven’t). https://www.404media.co/linkedin-is-training-ai-on-user-data-before-updating-its-terms-of-service/
LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data Before Updating Its Terms of Service

Multiple LinkedIn users on Wednesday noticed a setting that showed LinkedIn was using user data to improve its generative AI. LinkedIn told 404 Media it will update its terms of service “shortly.”

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Show threadnoplasticshowerSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog data feudalism in action https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-data-ocean-is-being-sectioned-off
Why the Data Ocean Is Being Sectioned Off

Bigger is better approaches in AI create an inexhaustible appetite for users’ data, leading to a rise in user data expropriation, sectioning off of the internet, and “data feudalism.”

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Show threadkeisatsuSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Huh, I can't see this option in the settings?
Show threadskrySep 18, 2024
@keisatsu @GossiTheDog https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
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Show threadkeisatsuSep 18, 2024
@skry @GossiTheDog Hmm nope, can't see anything regarding AI training here
Show threadkeisatsuSep 18, 2024
@skry @GossiTheDog Maybe it's because I'm in the EU? Checked both the website and android app but I can't find that toggle
Show threadmaxsec-2022Sep 18, 2024
@keisatsu @skry @GossiTheDog UK it's definitely there in the privacy section
Show threadDźwiedziuSep 18, 2024

@keisatsu
EU here, and it's the same.

I wonder if this is a coincidence  

@skry @GossiTheDog

Show threadchebraSep 18, 2024

@dzwiedziu @keisatsu @skry @GossiTheDog

I love GDPR more and more.

Show threadZoë (english toots)Sep 18, 2024
@keisatsu @skry @GossiTheDog same in France, no AI settings, I hope this means it's off
Show threadJules 🍺Sep 18, 2024
@keisatsu @skry @GossiTheDog it's here in the UK, but then we stupidly left the EU
Show threadNudeln Al Dente 🐘Sep 19, 2024
@keisatsu @skry @GossiTheDog It doesn't apply to the EU apparently (based on a convo I've had in a separate thread). 🇪🇺
Show threadBen AvisonSep 18, 2024
@keisatsu @GossiTheDog I just went hunting in the app (gosh there are a *lot* of options that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before) and found it under “Data privacy”
Show threadJonas KöritzSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog is this exclusive to specific countries or is their settings UI just so bad that I just can't find that toggle?
Show threadskrySep 18, 2024
@jonas @GossiTheDog https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
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Show threadJonas KöritzSep 18, 2024
@skry @GossiTheDog that page doesn't mention generative AI anywhere for me.
Show threadSam Hetchler (Kg6hxm)Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog
Damn. Just disabled it. When did this POS get in there?
Show threadBart Smit / ⲁⲗⲍⲓⲙⲟⲛSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog It's not under Settings, Account Preferences. I also can't find it under Settings, Data privacy. There is no search feature for settings. Can you tell us where this setting ought to be? I'm guessing that would save a lot of people a lot of time.😉
Show threadgigantosSep 18, 2024
@alzimon @GossiTheDog I also can't find it. Is it possible this is only outside GDPR or something?
Show threadLukSep 18, 2024
@alzimon @GossiTheDog same, I can’t find it either 😳
Show threadskrySep 18, 2024

@Luk @alzimon @GossiTheDog EU has rules, so lucky you. This is where it is for me:

https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
"Data for Generative AI Improvement”

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Show threadLukSep 18, 2024
@skry @alzimon @GossiTheDog I'm guessing I'm not yet in the dataset, there's no option (my UI is in French, this may be the reason why)
Show threadskrySep 18, 2024
@alzimon @GossiTheDog Maybe EU won’t let them do it. https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
"Data for Generative AI Improvement”
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Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.Sep 18, 2024
@alzimon @GossiTheDog
If on web on your actual computer rather than using their app, then it's Settings & Privacy > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement
Show threadthedarkniteSep 18, 2024
@alzimon @GossiTheDog in the mobile app I found it under settings>data privacy. But it may not be in all countries yet. Microsoft has a history of pushing features to a subset of countries before forcing them on everyone
Show threadStephan* :birders:Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog posts on LinkedIn… I have not worry about that 😆
Show threadAndrea Grandi 🦕Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog hi, can you please tell us under which section is it? I don't see it under settings in my LinkedIn account from web. Thanks
Show threadskrySep 18, 2024
@andreagrandi @GossiTheDog https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
"Data for Generative AI Improvement”
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Show threadAndrea Grandi 🦕Sep 18, 2024
@skry @GossiTheDog I don't have such thing. Maybe it's not available in EU
Show threadTrent MickSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog I found it under the "Data privacy" section of settings -- in the browser at https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement
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Show threadDoomwrenchSep 18, 2024

@GossiTheDog

Link to setting:

https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

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Show threadAleksei☃️Sep 18, 2024
@doomwrench @GossiTheDog I guess this isn't available everywhere.
Show threadDoomwrenchSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Meanwhile EU accounts....
Show threadTimothy WolodzkoSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog In EU there is no such a setting.
Show threadNeil BrutalistSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog the thing where it says you’ve been specially selected based on your expertise to write content on a given subject is not-at-all suspicious.
Show thread廃墟猫 🐈🌈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog I wonder if this button does anything except give you a false sense of security.
Show threadDanny 👾Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Classic move from Big Tech.
Show threadGabriel ElisavetskySep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog 🫡
Show threadmoseSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog I can’t find the setting to disable, could someone help me with this?
Show threadSumukha SSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog lol stop using LinkedIn in the first place. It’s a clown show unless of course you are focused on finding jobs or hiring people.
Show threadGreg Harvey 🌍Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Is this only in the app? I can't seem to find it in the website and I don't use the app. 🧐
Show threadAlbert HickeySep 18, 2024

@GossiTheDog

Thanks for this. Probably closing the stable door after the horse has bolted as the scrapping has already been done.

For me in the UK.
Click your image top right
Settings & Privacy
Data Privacy
Data for Generative AI Improvement

Show threadJon PENNYCOOKSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Half the "thought leadership" posts on #LinkedIn feel like they were written by #AI anyway - getting an AI to feed on the excrement of another AI will surely lead to chaos
Show threadRonnyTNLSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog EU user here, setting not available, possible #Brexit benefit
Show threadbutterscotchSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog thank you for the heads up! Australia user here and the setting is there under Data Privacy for me.
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog where is this option located? I'm not seeing it..
Show threadNazareno BosioSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Doing these kind of things opt-out instead of opt-in is really scummy.
Show threadAdam Jacobs 🇺🇦Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Thank you! I did not know that. Just switched it off.
Show threadTartastrouilleSep 18, 2024

@GossiTheDog
I might be wrong but the fact that they enable the option by default to everyone (but EU it seems) allow themselves to collect all the posts you already made right away.

Turning it off will only prevent them from using your future posts.

So they already have trained their AI with your data.

All companies are using this scumbag approach to get your data: auto opt-in everyone, get all existing data then give the illusion that you can opt-out with a useless option.

I hate this

Show threadPlain Reading PodcastSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Thanks for this. I go through every now and then and make sure all related crap is off—but this one seems to have snuck in. It's off now!
Show threadWilliam ConnerSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Just checked. I thought I had turned off, but not. Thanks.
Show threaddmi 💽 Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog better yet: don’t use linkedin
Show threadCryptoMooseSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog should this be the other way around, I have to give my consent, and not elect to opt out?
Show threadChrisSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Joke's on them. That's where I do all my best shitposting.
Show threadLuis FalconSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog even better, avoid linkedin
Show threadAni KeatenSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog ugh thank you! I turned it off. Wish I knew when they had opted me in quietly, but I suppose everything about me has been scraped repeatedly in recent years and I have no control
Show threadathlete4Sep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Big Tech has reached unprecedented lows. Pure evil. Please see my profile you'd be amazed.
Show threadJeff SlarveSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Thank you.
Show threadAdrian SegarSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog And turn off the "Social, economic, and workplace research" preference setting too!
Show threadAdrian SegarSep 18, 2024
@GossiTheDog Here are the LinkedIn Preference settings that should be turned off.