Part of Twitter (respectively X) for subscribers is the Grok chatbot based on artificial intelligence. It is being developed by Musk’s startup xAI. This language model, like others, needs to be trained on some data, and it can be your data.
There is a checkmark in the Twitter settings that allows your posts and interactions to be used to train Grok. However, according to some users, Twitter has now enabled this option for everyone without consent. Indeed even on my account data usage is allowed without me ever giving that consent.
How to stop Twitter from using your data for Musk’s AI?
If you don’t want Grok to train on your data, go to this link and uncheck it. There is no need to confirm it with any button. However, this can only be done in the Twitter web interface, this box is missing in the mobile application.
Twitter describes the feature as follows: “In order to continually improve your experience, we may use your posts on X, as well as your user interactions, input, and results from working with Grok for training and tuning purposes. This also means that your interactions, inputs and results may be shared with our xAI service provider for these purposes.“
Just three items above is the Inferred Identity box, which is fortunately turned off by default. If you turn it on, Twitter will also use data from devices and applications that you do not directly use for Twitter for personalization.
The mentioned feature is definitely not working, but it is still working its way through Twitter. Similarly, it was possible to refuse a similar function for Facebook until recently. The question remains, however, whether and to what extent companies really respect these refusals.
Source: EasyBakedOven
Source: www.cnews.cz
