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Elon Musk is quietly using your tweets to train his chatbot. Here’s how to opt out.
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Date:2025-04-15 00:58:02
Elon Musk’s X is harvesting your posts and interactions for its AI chatbot Grok without notifying you or asking for consent.
X, formerly known as Twitter, rolled out a default setting that automatically feeds your data to the company’s ChatGPT competitor.
An X user alerted social media users on Friday. “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.”
X did not respond to a request for comment.
The move is getting scrutiny from privacy regulators in Europe who say it may violate more stringent data protection rules there. European citizens have more rights over how their personal data is used.
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Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Grok hoover up vast amounts of data that they scrape from the internet. That practice has been met with opposition from authors, news outlets and publishers who argue the chatbots are violating copyright laws.
Musk released Grok in November. He positioned Grok as an unfiltered, anti-“woke” alternative to tools from OpenAI, Google and Microsoft.
With the rise of AI, conservatives complained that the answers chatbots spit out betray liberal bias on issues like affirmative action, diversity and transgender rights.
Musk has repeatedly sounded the alarm about AI wokeness and “woke mind virus.”
As a backer of DeepMind and OpenAI, Musk has a track record of investing in AI.
How to opt out of X training Grok on your data
If you don’t want X to train Grok on your data, you can opt out.
Here’s how:
On a computer, open up the “Settings and Privacy” page on X.
Go to “Privacy and Safety.”
Select “Grok.”
Uncheck the box that says: “Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning.”
Or you can click this link.
You can also delete your conversation history with Grok by then clicking “Delete conversation history.”
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