You don’t have to let social media services harvest your data to train their generative AI, as many companies do these days. You can opt out—if you can figure out how. The problem was hammered home last week when tech news site 404Media reported that LinkedIn had started training its AI on its users’ posts by default,

LinkedIn appears to have begun scraping user data to train generative AI models before updating its privacy policy.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn recently began training AI models on your data without your express consent. LinkedIn is updating its policies to disclose the practice.