The professional network now by default grants itself permission to use anything you post to train its artificial intelligence

You don’t have to let social media services harvest your data to train their generative AI, as many companies do these days. You can opt out—if you can figure out how. The problem was hammered home last week when tech news site 404Media reported that LinkedIn had started training its AI on its users’ posts by default,

LinkedIn is trawling your profile and posts and using the information as a teaching tool for its AI. You can stop it.

LinkedIn has suspended the use of UK user data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models after a regulator raised concerns. The career-focused social networking site, owned by Microsoft, quietly saw users around the world opted into their data being used to train its AI models.

Social media platforms including LinkedIn, Meta and Snapchat are using your profile to train their AI models. The models use data from posts, pictures and even your resume for training purposes.