X uses your data to train its Grok AI assistant, but if you’d like to opt out, you can do so directly from the settings menu. It’s available on the web here, or you can find it yourself by clicking the three-dot menu, then Settings & Privacy, then Privacy & Security, then Grok.
X’s @Safety account wrote in a post on Friday that the setting is now available to everyone on the web and “will be rolling out to mobile devices soon.”
In the menu, you can uncheck a box to choose not to allow “your posts and interactions with Grok, inputs and results to be used for training and fine-tuning purposes” and to share data about your interactions with xAI. Another option to opt out is to have a private account, which “prevents your posts from being used to train Grok’s underlying model or generate responses to user queries.”
You can also delete your conversation history with Grok (although you may not have any conversation history since Grok is currently only available if you subscribe to X Premium or the more expensive Premium Plus).
For X, training artificial intelligence tools based on user profiles is nothing new. The company’s privacy policy, last updated in September 2023, states “We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy. “
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When contacted for comment, X’s press email responded with the current standard auto-reply: “Very busy right now, please check back later.”
