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LinkedIn Is Quietly Training AI on Your Data—Here's How to Stop It


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

About a week ago, LinkedIn quietly published a post that reveals it's now using your data to train its AI models. LinkedIn's own policies prohibit any user-instigated "software, devices, scripts, robots" or crawlers from trawling its site. So LinkedIn won't be scraping and training AI on EU or Switzerland-based user data "until further notice."

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