No shit?
Jokes on them. I already use generative AI to impersonate myself on LinkedIn.
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.
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???
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
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.
Unfortunately for the AI models, about 95% of LinkedIn posts are total shite with no value whatsoever.
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Faceless Employee-Hating Corporation as a Senior wage Slave! I’m really looking forward to pouring my heart and soul into their profiteering endeavors over the next few years until their board lays me off so they can all afford another luxury yacht!
Congratulations on becoming a corporate slave! I hope you will have wonderful time there!
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.
Jokes on them I don’t post anything
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.
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!
Linkedin of all places. That’s justi a piece of garbage
