Microblog Memes

I might be wrong but the fact that they enable the option by default to everyone (but EU it seems) allow themselves to collect all the posts you already made right away.

Turning it off will only prevent them from using your future posts.

So they already have trained their AI with your data. They certainly won't "untrain" it after you switch the option off. You can't unring that bell...

All companies are using this scumbag approach to get your data: auto opt-in everyone, get all existing data then give the illusion that you can opt-out with a useless option.

I hate this

This setting is under 'Data privacy' - > 'How LinkedIn uses your data' - > 'Data for generative AI improvement'

Whoever actually posts to Linkedin is already lost in the sauce I'm afraid

Unfortunately for the AI models, about 95% of LinkedIn posts are total shite with no value whatsoever.

I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined Faceless Employee-Hating Corporation as a Senior wage Slave! I'm really looking forward to pouring my heart and soul into their profiteering endeavors over the next few years until their board lays me off so they can all afford another luxury yacht!

Yes surely toggling this setting will stop them! They won't totally just do it anyway regardless of your little toggle

When people ask me why I don't have a LinkedIn account, I always respond with "I have a resume". What even is the point of this site?

And unlike with Reddit and Stack Overflow (other platforms that have pulled shit like this) , poisoning your data to sabotage generative AI efforts is going to make you look like a fucking degenerate in front of current and past employers.

This is pretty fucking evil.

Changed it. But the fact it was already enabled by default means they’ve already hoovered a copy of my data. Turning it off now just means they won’t get any updates.

What pissed me off is that when I was in university, I spoke with a career coach and I mentioned I wanted to make a website for my portfolio, and he just said why don’t you use LinkedIn. I explained him why it’s bad to use a proprietary tool, he just didn’t get it.

Man, so many times I want to go back in time and punch him in the face (not really, but I should have reacted more harshly back then and never took his advice).

Thank you for posting. I went through the rigmarole (again) of turning off all of their data hoarding, data selling, creepy analytics stuff. Again, mind you. I’ve done it before.

Thanks for reminding me that I had to close my never used LinkedIn account. I always forget because I have some other stuff to do and always say "I'll do it later". It's done now. Not that they could use anything from it since I never posted anything but still...

First of all; no shit, who isn't?

Second; oh no, robots will learn how to write bad corpo bullshit. Won't somebody please think of the PR team???

Jokes on them I don't post anything

LinkedIn is a place for corporate bootlickers, if anything they will be elated to hear that.

Treating a company as a plural always sounds awkward to me.

It'll be very hard to prove they respect the button. Considering they probably sourced the data immediately after the button was put in place.

If I was a capitalist sociopath I’d go close my LinkedIn but I’m human so I never had one…

Can't wait for the bots to tell us what they learned about b2b marketing!

Linkedin of all places. That’s justi a piece of garbage

Cheers setting changed

PorgHub

LinkedIn and Microsoft has been shady for a long time. I refuse to write any posts on LinkedIn. I am not desperate for attention.

Jokes on them. I already use generative AI to impersonate myself on LinkedIn.

No shit?

Or.

Delete your data, if you cant delete it, edit it.

Then Leave the platform

Done. Tx.