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Elon Musk recently announced “the world’s most powerful training cluster” that will be used to “make Grok the most powerful AI by any criteria by December of this year.” Interestingly, X recently released a new data sharing experience that is enabled by default and uses users’ data to train Grok. The feature is hidden in the platform’s privacy settings and can only be disabled in the web app.
Earlier this week, billionaire Elon Musk announced on his X (formerly Twitter) platform that his company xAI has begun training Grok LLM using “the world’s most powerful AI training cluster.” Musk suggested that the AI model will be “the most powerful AI in the world by any metric by December of this year.”
But for now, it looks like training the Grok AI will require more than just “the world’s most powerful cluster.” According to X’s @EasyBakedOven spot, “Twitter has enabled a setting by default that grants all users the right to use their data to train Grok.” But perhaps even stranger is that the social media platform has quietly rolled out a feature that’s enabled by default to train Grok with users’ data.
Twitter has enabled the setting that grants users the right to use their data to train Grok by default for everyone. Twitter has not announced this. It can be disabled via the web, but it is hidden. It cannot be disabled via the mobile app. Direct link: https://t.co/lvinBlQoHC pic.twitter.com/LqiO0tyvZGJuly 26, 2024
This isn’t entirely surprising: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously acknowledged that it would be virtually impossible to develop an AI tool like ChatGPT without copyrighted content, amid mounting copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of ChatGPT and Microsoft. “Legally, copyright law does not prohibit training,” OpenAI added.
X researchers further suggested that it’s not possible to disable the feature via the mobile app, but it is possible to disable it, albeit in a hidden way, via the web app.
How to disable data sharing in X
Twitter Mobile Control Panel (Image credit: Daniel Rubino)
It’s clear that X wants to leverage user data to make Grok more efficient and effective, which is likely why the feature was shipped in secret and enabled by default. Additionally, X has not made it easy for regular users to disable the feature.
If you don’t want to use your data to train Grok,[設定]Then you need to go to[プライバシーと安全性]Click Options,[Grok]Choose.[データ共有]Go to the page where[投稿、および Grok とのやり取り、入力、結果をトレーニングと微調整に使用することを許可する]You will see that the option is enabled by default, finally, click the check mark to disable the feature.
X quietly rolled out a data sharing feature that’s enabled by default to train Grok. Here’s how to disable it. (Image credit: Kevin Okemwa | Windows Central)
The following explanation is provided for the Unsolicited Data Sharing feature:
“We may use your X posts and user interactions, inputs and results on Grok for training and fine-tuning purposes to continually improve your experience. This also means that your interactions, inputs and results may be shared with our service provider xAI for these purposes.”
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