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Elon Musk ’s social network X just quietly gave itself permission to use everyone’s posts on the former Twitter to train Grok , an AI model built and released by X.ai, another Elon Musk company. It was first discovered by a Twitter user.
“Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok,” X user @EasyBakedOven At first glance, that’s an aggressive and acquisitive move to boost Musk’s AI capabilities. On the other hand, given the public and generally available nature of Twitter historically, tweets have likely been used by multiple other AI companies for years.“Yes, OpenAI has used data from various sources, including publicly available data from social media platforms like Twitter, to train its models such as ChatGPT,” says ChatGPT, citing a May 2024by OpenAI.
But overall — as someone who has unwittingly contributed tens of millions of words to AI training — I’m generally OK with help the world get just a little bit smarter.Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.
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