X makes use of user data in order to develop Grok AI. This has led to regulatory scrutiny in the EU and UK. Want to know how X is using your posts to train its AI chatbot? Here’s how.
If you are an X user who composes long and insightful threads, expresses political views, runs fan accounts, or shares funny meme content, your posts are being fed to Grok AI, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, even if you never actually consented to it. It was pointed out by several users last week that there is a new setting on X which permits an account holder’s posts to be used to train and fine-tune Grok. Most importantly, all users are signed up by default as the checkbox that states that you “allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning,” is already marked.
AI chatbots like Grok or ChatGPT take up massive amounts of data that are taken up straight from the internet in order to generate more accurate answers to questions or commands given by users.
A spokesperson for the UK information commissioner’s office (ICO) stated, “Platforms seeking to use their users’ data to train their AI foundation models must be transparent about their activities. They should take steps to proactively notify users well in advance of using data for these purposes, and provide people with ample time and simple processes to object to having their data used in this way.”
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