{"id":171135,"date":"2023-09-02T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-musks-x-tells-users-that-it-could-use-their-posts-to-train-ai-models"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:23:51","slug":"elon-musks-x-tells-users-that-it-could-use-their-posts-to-train-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-musks-x-tells-users-that-it-could-use-their-posts-to-train-ai-models","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X tells users that it could use their posts to train AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-x-tells-users-that-it-could-use-their-posts-to-train-ai-models2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>X\u2019s new privacy policy, which is due to come into effect on September 29, states that the company \u201cmay use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy.\u201d This policy is not included in its previous terms, which are still posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1697328706178502737\" rel=\" nofollow\">responded<\/a> to a post about this change on X, saying that it would only use publicly available information to train the AI and would not use \u201cDMs or anything private.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a live audio session on X \u2013 formerly Twitter \u2013 in July, Elon Musk said that his AI startup, xAI, would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/14\/elon-musk-plans-tesla-twitter-collaborations-with-xai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">use public data from his social media platform to train its AI models<\/a>. Insider reached out to X for comment but didn\u2019t immediately hear back. It is not clear how it will use the information from X and which AI models this relates to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X\u2019s new privacy policy, which is due to come into effect on September 29, states that the company \u201cmay use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy.\u201d This policy is not included in its previous terms, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,31,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}