If you use X, you may have heard about the AI Grok already. Currently, xAI and Grok are playing catch-up with the current AI allstars. Plans are to push Grok to first place by the end of the year.
Whether that is going to happen or not remains to be seen. What is clear is that Grok, like any large language model, needs access to as much data as possible.
One source for such data is X itself. If you use X, your data on the site is used to train and fine-tune Grok by default.
X says that it is using posts, interactions, inputs, and results to train the AI on the site.
Block X from using your data to train the AI
If you do not want that, you may make a change in settings and also delete your conversation history.
Here is how that is done:
- Click on this link to open the setting directly on X.
- If you prefer, you may also go there manually (Menu > Settings and privacy > Privacy and safety > Grok.
- Uncheck “Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning”.
- Optional step: click on Delete conversation history to delete all interactions with Grok.
Note: Grok access is limited to X-subscribers at the time of writing. Your data may still be used to train the AI, even if you are not a subscriber or have used Grok in the past.
Once you have made the change, Grok will no longer use your posts on Twitter for training.
Now you: do you use X? What is your take on the default setting? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
“Social Media” is the cancer of our species.
The original idea was noble but greed has corrupted it.
I sometimes go to Social networks if there is a link in the search or on YouTube to the post, but I never sign up or create accounts. And I never allow cookies on social networks. Basically, I treat it like any other non-essential website. And I spend the same time on them as on any other random website. This way, its not evil, just another mostly unreliable source of information, and that’s about it.