LinkedIn is scraping private data for AI

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Updates to LinkedIn’s Terms of Service

Today we’re updating our User Agreement and clarifying some practices covered by our Privacy Policy.*..

In our Privacy Policy, we have added language to clarify how we use the information you share with us to develop the products and services of LinkedIn and its affiliates, including by training AI models used for content generation (“generative AI”) and through security and safety measures.

When it comes to using members’ data for generative AI training, we offer an opt-out setting. At this time, we are not enabling training for generative AI on member data from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and will not provide the setting to members in those regions until further notice. ..

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LinkedIn is rapidly going down the pan.  MS have done absolutely nothing with it in their years of ownership, other than treating it as yet another giant database to mine at their discretion, chopping and changing the Ts and Cs at will.

More recently, it is slowing to a crawl and uses huge amounts of memory, to the point where my browser now frequently crashes just scrolling through my (tedious) feed.

Seriously, what is the point of LinkedIn these days?

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LinkedIn is run by humans unencumbered by both compassionate values and souls.

Human, who sports only naturally-occurring DNA ~ oneironaut ~ broadcaster

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Thanks for the heads-up, @Alex5723 — even though I’m retired, I just opted out!

Win 7 SP1 Home Premium 64-bit; Office 2010; Group B (SaS); Former 'Tech Weenie'

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