LinkedIn is training AI with your data. Here’s how to opt out ASAP [Video]

As an objective journalistic observer of the tech and business world, I’d like to state the inarguable, quantifiable, unavoidable fact that LinkedIn sucks. It sucks really hard. LinkedIn is a terrible fusion of the worst parts of social networks, job boards, and office culture — and it’s about to suck even harder with the help of AI.

Like seemingly every large tech company these days, LinkedIn is injecting generative AI into its platform. (You may have already spotted it on prompts that “help” users write posts or messages.) But the Microsoft-owned website is now scraping its user data to train its artificial intelligence systems. Naturally, you’re opted into sharing your data with LinkedIn’s AI for free, without any kind of message or alert. (Unless you’re in the EU, where this kind of sneaky behavior is illegal.)

In fact, LinkedIn started using your data before updating its often-intentionally-nebulous Privacy Policy, as spotted by 404 Media. The …