LinkedIn uses user data to train artificial intelligence

LinkedIn has updated its privacy policy to clarify that this social network’s user data is used for Training artificial intelligence models is used

LinkedIn’s policies page now reads:

We may use your personal data to improve, develop and provide products and services, develop and train artificial intelligence models, develop, provide and personalize our services and obtain information with the help of artificial intelligence, automated systems and inferences to provide our services to you. And others are more useful.”

It is also explained on another page of the LinkedIn website that the platform uses artificial intelligence for purposes such as writing features.

Prevent LinkedIn from accessing your data

Of course, you can cancel the permission to use your data at any time through your profile settings and the “Data to improve AI” section. (picture above)

According to LinkedIn; Disabling this feature “means that LinkedIn and its affiliates will not use your personal data or content to train future models, but will not affect the training of current models.

Its FAQ section also states that the company uses “privacy-enhancing technologies to edit or remove personal data” from its training sets and does not train its models for those living in the European Union, the European Economic Area, or Switzerland. .

This report comes as Meta recently admitted that since 2007, it has been using all users’ posts on Facebook and Instagram to train its AI, unless the users themselves have disabled doing so.