X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models::X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job and education history, Bloomberg spotted

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[+] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    There's a community dedicated to Musk stories called Enough Musk Spam. I post in it all the time and I wholly advocate keeping most Musk/Twitter stories off this community unless they are of significant importance.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've added Lemmy filter keywords for Elon, Musk and Twitter, but that won't stop headlines like these, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sneaky bastards renamed it something that can't be blocked with a word-filter unless you're willing to block bunch of unrelated stuff aswell

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Downvote Musk spam. He will say/do anything to stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don't be a useful idiot.

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  • Garbage in...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Glad I don't use X...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    X users are like that henchman in Austin Powers that refused to die, just kept updating everyone on his pain and slow death process. Just leave the platform or don't, but stop being surprised at every new indignity, if there were ever a line that shouldn't be crossed, it was left in the dust long ago.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Twitter was transformed into a far-right Nazi sympathizing cesspool of misinformation, indoctrination and hate. If you haven’t blocked all DNS resolutions for the site by now you’re doing it wrong. The site will eventually be shut down due to these facts, it will just take another j6-like event to do it.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    If there was ever a time to leave Twitter for good, it's now.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tay all over again. Except this time it will be training on apartheid billionaires midlife crisis

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  • [–] [B] 5 points 2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    As Ivanovs points out, X owner Elon Musk has ambitions to enter the AI market with another company, xAI.

    This leads him to theorize that Musk likely intends to use X as a source of data for xAI — and perhaps Musk’s recent tweet encouraging journalists to write on X was even an attempt to generate more interesting and useful data to feed into the AI models.

    In fact, Musk has previously stated that xAI would use “public tweets” to train its AI models, so this is not much of a leap.

    Musk also filed suit against unknown entities for scraping Twitter data, which also may have been for the purpose of training artificial intelligence large language models.

    Musk essentially confirmed the privacy policy change, responding to a post on X to clarify that the plan is to use “just public data, not DMs or anything private.”

    X no longer responds to press requests with a poop emoji as it had following Musk’s takeover of the social network.


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