x uses your data to train its ai assistant Grok, but if you don't want to do that, you can do it directly from the settings menu. x.com/settings/grok_settings”>It is accessible on the web hereor you can find it yourself by clicking on the three-dot menu, then “Settings & Privacy,” then “Privacy & Security,” then “Grok.”
x's @Safety account x.com/Safety/status/1816874083721838921″>wrote in a post on Friday that the setting is now available to all users on the web and “will soon be rolled out to mobile devices.”
In the menu, you can uncheck a box to opt out of allowing “your posts, as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and tuning purposes” and sharing data about your interactions with xAI. The other option to opt out is to have a private account, which “prevents your posts from being used to train Grok’s underlying model or to generate responses to user queries.”
You can also delete your conversation history with Grok (although you may not have any, as Grok is currently only available if you subscribe to x Premium or the more expensive Premium Plus).
It is not news that x communicates that it trains its artificial intelligence tools with user data. The company's privacy policy, last updated x.com/en/privacy”>in September 2023says that “we may use information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes described in this policy.”
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When asked for comment, x's press email responded with its current standard auto-reply: “Busy now, check back later.”
