A recent change in the user agreement for LinkedIn is raising questions about data privacy. Last week, the site started accessing the user profiles to train artificial intelligence. Essentially, it granted itself permission to use your information.

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,

If you’re in a country where LinkedIn has started using your data for AI training, it’s easy to stop it. Go to the data privacy section in settings and switch the “Use my data for training content creation AI models” toggle to off.

LinkedIn users have noticed a new setting that allows them to stop the company from training its AI with their data—but that sharing is turned on by default. Here's how to disable it.

The U.K.'s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data for AI model training for now. Stephen

Once you are logged into LinkedIn’s website in your browser, click on “Settings and Privacy” under the “Me” tab. Then select “Data Privacy.” From there, look under the “How LinkedIn uses your data” header. At the bottom, you’ll find “Data for Generative AI Improvement.” Click on that and toggle the switch to “Off” to opt out.

The data collected for the Generative AI Improvement program is used to “improve or develop the LinkedIn services,” LinkedIn said.

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

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