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No shit?
Or.
Delete your data, if you cant delete it, edit it.
Then Leave the platform
There are very few places on the Internet where your data won’t be scraped and used for AI training. Every social media company does this, including Discord and Reddit. Federated platforms are quite easy to scrape (not sure if they are yet). Even if you make your own website, it’s definitely going to be scraped by crawlers from every company wanting to make AI.
It’ll be very hard to prove they respect the button. Considering they probably sourced the data immediately after the button was put in place.
I might be wrong but the fact that they enable the option by default to everyone (but EU it seems) allow themselves to collect all the posts you already made right away.
Turning it off will only prevent them from using your future posts.
So they already have trained their AI with your data. They certainly won’t “untrain” it after you switch the option off. You can’t unring that bell…
All companies are using this scumbag approach to get your data: auto opt-in everyone, get all existing data then give the illusion that you can opt-out with a useless option.
I hate this
To add to this, I’m shocked anyone actually believes these toggles do anything. Time and again these companies have proven that they merely “respect” your wishes and they’ll do whatever they want, then pay the slap-on-the-wrist fine later.
I mean this is exactly why GDPR and legislation that dictates users own their data is so important.
Indeed, but I doubt these companies actually respect it
LinkedIn is a place for corporate bootlickers, if anything they will be elated to hear that.
My LinkedIn feed is actually mostly people outranged by it and they are mostly people who are very pro AI typically. A lot of people get frustrated at LinkedIn especially because they don’t provide anything to creators and make all their money off of them.
First of all; no shit, who isn’t?
Second; oh no, robots will learn how to write bad corpo bullshit. Won’t somebody please think of the PR team???
Yes surely toggling this setting will stop them! They won’t totally just do it anyway regardless of your little toggle
Whoopsie-doodle, we accidentally turned the toggle back on the second you weren’t looking. Soooorry *shrug*
lol sorry cant retrain the model to remove it.
Thank you for posting. I went through the rigmarole (again) of turning off all of their data hoarding, data selling, creepy analytics stuff. Again, mind you. I’ve done it before.
Ok. I’m gonna ask a question that sounds rhetorical and critical but I want you to know this is a genuine question.
Why are you using LinkedIn? What’s the point? What possible service can it provide you?
Thank you for the pretext!
I was asked to make one while in college, and after college, used it alongside other platforms like Indeed, Monster, and my local state jobs board to find a job. Left it active because I don’t use it for anything than reaching out to recruiters or answer them back. It has one use, and that is networking. People who use it as a social media are using it wrong, in my opinion, but to each their own!
This setting is under ‘Data privacy’ - > ‘How LinkedIn uses your data’ - > ‘Data for generative AI improvement’
Don’t see it here in Sweden.
Same, also in Sweden.
I don’t have that setting at all? Maybe being rolled out in waves or something?
I’m from the UK on mobile. Maybe it’s a geographic or platform thing?
That’s because you left the EU.
Can’t wait for the bots to tell us what they learned about b2b marketing!
As a human bot in b2b marketing, the dark arts are antithetical to learning. To market is to forget.
Jokes on them I don’t post anything
What pissed me off is that when I was in university, I spoke with a career coach and I mentioned I wanted to make a website for my portfolio, and he just said why don’t you use LinkedIn. I explained him why it’s bad to use a proprietary tool, he just didn’t get it.
Man, so many times I want to go back in time and punch him in the face (not really, but I should have reacted more harshly back then and never took his advice).
Why does that piss you off? It sounds like you had a conversation. Maybe he did get it, just thought you were wrong and/or overweighting things you found important, that he did not.
If you want to hamstring your career by not having a presence on the world’s biggest careers website then that’s perfectly okay - but I do not think a professor at University should be advising that course and would be failing their students if they did.
I am not saying you’re wrong, and I do understand the reasons you might choose this path - but that doesn’t mean you’re right and that your choices are good advice for everyone.
No no, it was the advice that would personally benefit me the most. It was the “get with the times” and “it’s objectively better” attitude that pissed me off. He wasn’t telling me about the sad reality but questioned why I would question the norm.
Again, why? Both of those “attitudes” are reasonable.
We do live in the times of privacy exchanged for service. At least this service directly impacts my ability to earn money off that exchange.
LInkedIn is also objectively better at everything you use LinkedIn for: with the exception of, you guessed it, privacy. The only real option you have here is to not use it (and accept you are putting yourself at a disadvantage)
I get the desire to retain privacy, and to not use a product that goes against your code. I just think your reaction to a perfectly reasonable, and entirely predictable response is perhaps naive? Or just unwarranted. You priority privacy over maximising salary potential - an entirely reasonable thing, but not one most people would do.
And unlike with Reddit and Stack Overflow (other platforms that have pulled shit like this) , poisoning your data to sabotage generative AI efforts is going to make you look like a fucking degenerate in front of current and past employers.
This is pretty fucking evil.
Changed it. But the fact it was already enabled by default means they’ve already hoovered a copy of my data. Turning it off now just means they won’t get any updates.
