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Fortune
Jenn Brice

How to stop LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram from hoovering up your data to train their AI

A person holds a mobile phone with the Linkedin app open on screen (Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Image)

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, without letting users know about the change. LinkedIn is relying on the data to train AI that will help users write their posts or to recommend content to them. 

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