LinkedIn is training AI on you — unless you opt out with this setting The professional network now by default grants itself permission to use anything you post to train its artificial intelligence ...

LinkedIn profiles have the “Use my data for training content creation AI models” setting turned on by default, and it’s been left up to users to turn it off.

“LinkedIn advised us that the policy would include an opt-out setting for its members who did not want their data used for training content generating AI models,” a spokesperson for the DPC said.

Luckily, LinkedIn is allowing users to decline having their data used, for now. But the rise of AI training is a stark reminder that when it comes to these platforms, we are the product.