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PC World Latest NewsJul 26, 2024
X's Grok AI is scanning your tweets. Here's how to disable it

X's Grok generative AI product is being integrated into the web and mobile versions of the social network, and training itself on billions of tweets thanks to an automatic opt-in for all users. (All large language model (LLM) AI tools need to be trained on massive amounts of text, which is why ChatGPT periodically releases new versions with an updated core database.)

Well, it seems like a constantly refreshed pool of conversations from some of the web's most active users was simply too much for company xAI to resist, which now automatically scans your "posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and [Grok search] results."

At the moment, X is using Grok as a chatbot for premium users and to replace human-made summaries of late-breaking news stories, with predictable issues resulting. The flippant and "rebellious" tone of the Grok model's responses has been criticized by initial users, and its reliance on constantly updated data from X seems to make it particularly susceptible to deliberate misinformation campaigns.

All X/Twitter users are automatically opted into having their data scanned by Grok, whether they pay for premium features or not. Thankfully, it's possible to opt out manually… though not particula


PC World Latest NewsJul 26, 2024
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