LinkedIn subtly rolled out a new feature (Data for Generative AI improvement), allowing Microsoft and affiliates' AI models to access your data for training without consent.

LinkedIn has come under fire for secretly training its AI models on user data without explicit consent. The professional networking platform recently updated its privacy policy to clarify how it uses user data to develop and provide AI-powered services.

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,

Yet another major tech company is training AI models with user data—by default—and not informing users first. Following in the footsteps of Meta and X’s Grok, LinkedIn is opting users into training its AI,