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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 02:58:38 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Still on X? Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit https://x.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.

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   • Maybe(oz) (oz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:07:25 JST Maybe(oz)

     in reply to

     @eff Sure, let's train a LLM on bigotry and hatred. 🤣

   • Old Man in the Shoe (jenzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:15:46 JST Old Man in the Shoe

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     @eff Surprised the EFF stance isn't to get off Twitter entirely.

   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:45:41 JST Juan Astudillo

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     Being cynical, it is possible for X to make it so that opting out for data collection on their platform won't actually do anything at all (except for poviding an aditional datapoint about your preferences to the company).

   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:48:21 JST Juan Astudillo

     in reply to

     @eff

     Being cynical, it is possible for X (or any other online platform) to make it so that opting out for data collection on their platform won't actually do anything at all (except for poviding an aditional datapoint about your preferences to the company).

   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:49:30 JST Juan Astudillo

     in reply to

     @eff

     Being cynical, it is possible for X (or any other online platform) to make it so that opting out for data collection on their client won't actually do anything at all (except for providing them with an aditional datapoint about your preferences for the company).

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:59:15 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

     in reply to

     It won't be visible on mobile.

   • Tony (awstephen@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:59:40 JST Tony

     in reply to

     @eff that is not a settings option in Australia?

   • Holly (gikkt@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:59:40 JST Holly

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     • Tony

     @AWStephen @eff I didn't see the setting either and I'm in the US.

   • Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge: (bm_bourguignon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 05:03:31 JST Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge:

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     • Jor ☝️😐

     @eff
     Ypu can't access this link through Firefox Mobile.
     @jor

   • mrnhmath (mrnhmath@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 05:15:07 JST mrnhmath

     in reply to

     @eff The only X I know is the X Window System.

   • dannyj991 (dannyj991@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 05:49:47 JST dannyj991

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     @eff That seems like a REALLY bad idea. There is just so much wrong and biased information on X, I can't imagine any of it helping an LLM improve it's accuracy.

   • Dr. Evil Engineer (captainnemo99@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 05:55:51 JST Dr. Evil Engineer

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     @eff X can glady use my shit posts to train their AI. That dumpster fire can only get worse.

   • Chairman Steve (stevenally@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 07:04:44 JST Chairman Steve

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     @eff

     The Sheeple. God bless em, tamely being fleeced by Elon.

   • sarah654 (sarah654@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 09:14:48 JST sarah654

     in reply to

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   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 09:59:17 JST Juan Astudillo

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     @eff I've seen people recommend to simply opt-out from Grok telemetry, delete the app and use X from the web client. Many may already know this approach is sub-optimal, but, for the few who may still not be aware of it:

     To prevent X from collecting your data, using the web client rather than the app only helps to reduce the amount at best, the app might collect a little more data than the web client overall, but not by much. The data they want the most is usually collected from the server side.

   • SaftyKuma (saftykuma@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 11:56:43 JST SaftyKuma

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     @eff Yeah, this prompted me to log in for the first time in over a year to finally just delete my account.

     No reason to stay on this lunatic's site.

   • ToddZ (toddz@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 16:08:26 JST ToddZ

     in reply to

     @eff Seems a good time to mention https://deletetwitter.com/

   • Blinxeto (blinxeto@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 20:03:13 JST Blinxeto

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     @eff