The data collected for the Generative AI Improvement program is used to “improve or develop the LinkedIn services,” LinkedIn said.

Updates to LinkedIn’s user agreement will automatically opt users into sharing their data with its AI. Follow these steps to opt out. LinkedIn users might not realize they’re giving permission for the site to use their personal data and any content they create on the platform to train the company’s generative AI models,

The UK's data watchdog said it raised concerns over LinkedIn's approach to using UK data to train AI.

No matter how morally or even legally murky AI data scraping is, companies just can't seem to stop. The latest culprit is the job-finding social media platform LinkedIn.

The U.K.'s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data for AI model training for now. Eagle-eyed privacy experts had already spotted a quiet edit LinkedIn made to its privacy policy after a backlash over grabbing people's info to train AIs — adding the U.