X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it

An AI-generated image released by xAI during the launch of Grok

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. (credit: xAI)

Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users' data, and that's opt-out, not opt-in. If you're an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven't explicitly told it not to.

Over the past day or so, users of the platform noticed the checkbox to opt out of this data usage in X's privacy settings. The discovery was accompanied by outrage that user data was being used this way to begin with.

The social media posts about this sometimes seem to suggest that Grok has only just begun training on X users' data, but users actually don't know for sure when it started happening.

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