Elon Musk’s X is using your tweets to train its AI, Grok. Here’s how to opt out.

• Elon Musk’s X activated a default setting to train Grok, its AI chatbot, on user data.
• Users can disable data sharing in the ‘Privacy and Safety’ tab on X.
• Grok, a ChatGPT competitor, is available via premium subscription.

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Your unfiltered thoughts are about to become training data for one of the most unhinged AI chatbots on the market.

X has activated a setting that, by default, gives it access to users’ posts, interactions, and inputs as training data for Grok, the company’s ChatGPT competitor.

If you want to disable it, here’s a step-by-step guide:

Once on X, head to the menu on the left side and click “More.”

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Then, select the “Settings and privacy” tab at the bottom.

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Under that tab, navigate to the “Privacy and safety” option.

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Then, scroll down and uncheck the box next to Grok.

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Grok, which first became available to X users last year, is now available to all users via a premium subscription. It’s been billed by X owner Elon Musk as loving sarcasm and having a “little humor” in its responses — partly because it has real-time access to a trove of user posts.

The bot comes in two modes: a “regular mode” that provides straightforward answers and a “fun mode” that amps up the sarcasm and humor.

Last year, Musk said in Spaces that he wants Grok to be known as the funniest AI. “So I mean if you ask Grok to provide a vulgar roast, it’s really good,” he said.

It’s yet to be seen just how funny Grok will be if everyone opts out of allowing it to train on their data.

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