If you use LinkedIn , you should know that the social network has been selecting accounts to train generative AI models without your request.
“We may use your personal data to improve, develop and provide products and services, develop and train AI models, develop, provide and personalize our Services, and obtain insights with the help of AI, automated systems and reasoning, so that our Services are more relevant and useful to you and others,” the platform said.
LinkedIn writes on its help page that it uses generative AI for purposes such as writing assistant features, and says you can revoke permission by heading to the Data Privacy tab in your account settings and clicking on “Data to improve generative AI,” and finding the toggle, turn it off to opt out.
According to LinkedIn: “Opting out means that LinkedIn and its affiliates will not use your personal data or content on LinkedIn to train models in the future, but this does not affect training that has already been completed.”
The FAQ published for AI Training says it uses “privacy-enhancing techniques to edit or remove personal data” from its training sets, and that it does not train its models on people living in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.
This setting is for data used to train generative AI models, but LinkedIn has other machine learning tools that work on things like personalization and moderation that don't generate content.
To opt out of having your data used to train these tools, you will also need to fill out the LinkedIn Data Processing Objection Form.
LinkedIn's apparent inclusion of all, or at least most, users of its platform comes just days after Meta admitted to collecting non-private user data to train models since 2007.