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Altman further argued thatcopyright law doesn’t prohibit using copyrighted content to train AI models.

While speaking toPCMag, a LinkedIn spokesman indicated that “affiliates” refer to any Microsoft-owned company.

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The spokesman also clarified that LinkedIn wasn’t sharing the collected data with OpenAI.

Interestingly, EU, EEA, and Switzerland users are seemingly missing in action.

Elon Musk’s Grok faced similar criticisms in July forsecretly training the AI model without user consent.

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How to turn off LinkedIn’s Data for Generative AI Improvement feature to prevent it from using your data to train Microsoft and “affiliates” AI models.

Like LinkedIn’s new controversial feature, Grok’s AI training feature was enabled by default.

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