Elon Musk's X training Grok chatbot with user's post: How to opt out and more

Elon Musk 's social media platform X (earlier Twitter ) has started using user posts, interactions, and outputs with Grok to improve the AI model . The company has implemented this feature by default, requiring users to manually opt-out.

The platform explains: "To continuously improve your experience, we may utilize your X posts as well as your user interactions, inputs and results with Grok for training and fine-tuning purposes. This also means that your interactions, inputs, and results may also be shared with our service provider xAI for these purposes."

While X justifies the data collection as necessary for enhancing user experience, concerns have been raised about privacy implications. The process of disabling the feature is not straightforward, as it currently cannot be done through the mobile app and is hidden within the web app's settings.


How to opt out of the Grok training program
To opt out of sharing data for Grok training, users need to:

• Navigate to the "Privacy and safety" section in their web app settings
• Select "Grok." to open the Data Sharing page,
• Look for the new “Allow your posts, as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning” option, which will be enabled by default.
• Click on the checkmark to disable the setting.

This change was first spotted by an X user named EasyBakedOven. In a post showing the new setting, the user wrote: “Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok.”

Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app

Direct link: https://t.co/lvinBlQoHC pic.twitter.com/LqiO0tyvZG

— Kimmy Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ K-brat (@EasyBakedOven) July 26, 2024

Earlier this week, Musk announced that xAI had started training its Grok LLM using "the most powerful AI training cluster in the world." Musk stated that by December, the company’s AI model will be "the world's most powerful AI by every metric."

Nice work by @xAI team, @X team, @Nvidia & supporting companies getting Memphis Supercluster training started at ~4:20am local time.

With 100k liquid-cooled H100s on a single RDMA fabric, it’s the most powerful AI training cluster in the world!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2024