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How to stop Elon Musk training his Grok AI on your tweets
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X owner Elon Musk has been using public tweets to train its Grok artificial intellignce tool, but you don’t have to let him. Here’s how to prevent your tweets being harvested.
A new default setting on X has revealed that the social network formerly known as Twitter has been training its Grok AI tool using your posts and interactions, without your explicit content.
Delving into the settings, you’ll see “privacy and security” menu and a section devoted to Grok. Here you’ll find a tickbox that’s automatically ticked.
It reads: “Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning”. It goes on to say: “This also means that your interactions, inputs, and results may also be shared with our service provider xAI for these purposes.”
It’s quite crafty really, isn’t it? But it’s very much in keeping with the way all AI models have been trained throughout the last few years, with little public knowledge of the matter.
Given the owner of this one though, it’s quite possible Grok will have some serious right wing leanings, rather than some altruistic personality that cares only for the best interests of mankind.
Thankfully, there is a way to turn the Grok-feeding off without deleting your Twitter account.
What you’ll need:
The short version
Step1
Open X.com in your web browser
Make sure you’re signed into your X and Twitter account
Step2
Select the More tab from the side menu
This will give you access to the deeper settings.
Step3
Tap Settings and Privacy
This opens up the nuts and bolts of your Twitter account
Step4
Select Privacy and safety
They don’t have make you work for this, don’t they?
Step5
Tap ‘Grok’ from the ‘data sharing and personalization’ menu
Now we’re getting somewhere!
Step6
Turn off the Data Sharing tick box.
And there you have it, no more of your X posts being used to train Elon’s pet AI.
Chris Smith is a freelance technology journalist for a host of UK tech publications, including Trusted Reviews. He’s based in South Florida, USA. …
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