You don’t have to let social media services harvest your data to train their generative AI, as many companies do these days. You can opt out—if you can figure out how. The problem was hammered home last week when tech news site 404Media reported that LinkedIn had started training its AI on its users’ posts by default,

The professional network now by default grants itself permission to use anything you post to train its artificial intelligence

The data collected for the Generative AI Improvement program is used to “improve or develop the LinkedIn services,” LinkedIn said.