If youre an X/Twitter user, take a second to tweak this setting.
It turns out many user posts have been automatically opted-in for training Grok, Elon Musks ChatGPT competitor.
Twitter has automatically opted us all in as training data for Grok.
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Turn it off asap.
Scroll down to the Data sharing and personalization tab.
At the bottom of that list is a setting for Grok.
©Matthew Gault screenshot.
Click it and you should see a checkbox.
verify that checkbox is empty and youre good to go.
LLMs are hungry for training data.
©Matthew Gault screenhot
They need more and more fresh, human-generated, interactions to better hone in on replicating normal written patterns.
It makes sense that Grok would use posts on X as training data, but its polite to ask.
Grok and xAI are at the center of Musks plans for the future.
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