Elon Musk’s X Activates Setting Allowing It to Train Grok AI on User Posts and Interactions by Default

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor X, the social network formerly known as Twitter owned by mega-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, has turned on a setting indicating it intends to use its millions of users’ posts and interactions to train Grok, the AI assistant developed by another one of Musk’s companies. “To continuously improve your experience, we may utilize your X posts as well as your user interactions, inputs and results with Grok for training and fine-tuning purposes,” says a notice on X’s settings web page. “This also means that your interactions, inputs, and results may also be shared with our service provider xAI for these purposes.” X users can opt out of having their data collected for Grok.

The setting is available on the web but not on the mobile app at this point. Users can uncheck the box to opt out of the feature; in addition, there’s an option to delete your Grok conversation history.

A post on X’s help site titled “About Grok, Your Humorous AI Search Assistant on X” says that “Like most LLMs today, Grok-1 was pre-trained by xAI on a variety of text data from publicly available sources from the Internet up to Q3 2023 and data sets reviewed and curated by AI Tutors who are human reviewers.