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

LinkedIn users have noticed a new setting that allows them to stop the company from training its AI with their data—but that sharing is turned on by default. Here's how to disable it.

LinkedIn is taking its users’ data to train its AI models. People’s accounts have been automatically opted into the system that means that a whole host of personal information could be used to make artificial intelligence systems, according to an update that was first spotted by 404 Media.

LinkedIn has been scraping users’ personal data to train AI models without making necessary changes to its privacy policy at the outset. The Microsoft-owned platform only recently updated its terms of service to reflect its data harvesting process, according to a report by 404 Media.

LinkedIn is trawling your profile and posts and using the information as a teaching tool for its AI. You can stop it.

Nowadays, there’s no telling how many of the companies we trust are scraping our data under our noses to train AI models. We never find out until they’re caught with their hands in the cookie jar. One of the most popular job search platforms and social media sites actually lets us know that it scrapes our data,

LinkedIn really wants to use your data to train its AI — so much so that you've been automatically opted in (if you're in the US).

LinkedIn may have been training AI models on user data without fully informing users. Concerns about data usage without consent are rising,