If you’re an X/Twitter user, take a moment to tweak this setting: it turns out that many user posts are automatically opted-in to training on Grok, a competitor to Elon Musk’s ChatGPT.
Twitter automatically opted us all in as training data for Grok.
Turn off the power immediately.
Settings / Privacy / Grok pic.twitter.com/yKhpowuehH
— Cassandra, Sleep Heretic (@replygirlsystem) July 26, 2024
Multiple users, including open source intelligence analysts Oliver AlexanderX noticed the change and alerted the public: “X now has data sharing enabled by default for all users. This means you agree that all of your posts, interactions, and data here can be used to train Grok and that this data can be shared with xAI,” he said in an X post.
If you don’t want X to collect all your little interactions to train a final online large-scale language model, you must opt out. Users can only do this through the website, there is no setting in the Android or iPhone X apps.
Tap the three dots at the bottom left of the screen and select Settings from the pop-up menu.[プライバシーと安全性]Choose.[データ共有とパーソナライズ]Scroll down to the tabs. You’ll find Grok settings at the bottom of the list. Click on it and you’ll see a checkbox. Make sure the checkbox is empty and you’re good to go.
LLM wants training data. It increasingly needs fresh human-generated interactions to more accurately replicate normal writing patterns. The explanation below the checkbox reads: “To continually improve your user experience, we may use your user interactions, inputs, and results on X posts and/or Grok for training and fine-tuning purposes.” “This also means that for these purposes, user interactions, inputs, and results may be shared with our service provider, xAI.”
It makes sense for Grok to use X’s posts as training data, but it’s polite to ask. It’s unclear when X enrolled everyone in Grok training, and the company did not respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.
Grok and xAI are central to Musk’s future plans. Dismal quarterly earnings report The Tesla CEO, who revealed plans this week for the company to invest $5 billion in xAI, told investors that xAI is essential for advances in self-driving cars and data centers, and that he wants to integrate Grok into Tesla’s software.
