Elon Musk’s X Rolls Out Default Setting Letting User Posts Train His AI Chatbot Grok, But Users A Way To Opt Out
deadline.comElon Musk‘s X has implemented a default setting for user posts and interactions on the social media platform to be used to help train A.I.
chatbot Grok. “Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning,” the setting language reads.
The scheme does come with an option enabling users to opt out of the process, however. While the default setting will automatically capture content for Grok, “all X users have the ability to control whether their public posts can be used to train Grok, the AI search assistant,” the company wrote Friday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “This setting is available on the web platform and will soon be rolled out on mobile.” Making accounts private can also prevent users’ material from being fed to Grok, the post noted.
Rolled out to premium subscribers on X last fall, Grok is an AI chatbot in the mold of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and part of AI startup xAI, which Musk also owns.
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