Company X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users that it will now collect biometric data as well as users’ employment and educational history. Bloomberg Spotted earlier this week. But it seems that’s not the only thing X plans to do with user data. According to an update to another section of the policy, the company also plans to use the information it collects and other publicly available information to help train its machine learning and artificial intelligence models, it says.
Alex Ivanov has noticed the change Stackdiarywhich has a track record of finding notable updates to technology companies’ terms of service, having previously found AI-related updates in brave And Zoom in. His post is now trending on the Y Combinator discussion forum Pirate News.
Specifically, policy change X is Found in Section 2.1 It reads as follows:
We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes described in this policy.
As Ivanov points out, X’s owner, Elon Musk, has ambitions to enter the AI market with another company, xAI. This leads him to assume that Musk likely intends to use X as a data source for xAI — and perhaps Musk’s latest data tweet Encouraging journalists to write on X was an attempt to generate more interesting and useful data to feed into AI models.
In fact, Musk did just that It was previously mentioned that xAI It will use Public Tweets to train its AI models, so this isn’t a big leap. He accused other tech giants of leveraging Twitter to train their own AI models Threatening Microsoft with a possible lawsuit Due to the alleged illegal use of Twitter data. Musk too Filed a lawsuit against Unknown entities are collecting Twitter data, which may also have been for the purpose of training large AI language models.
Additionally, Ivanov points to text on xAI’s homepage that states that although it is a separate company from X Corp, it will “work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress toward our mission.”
Basically musk Certain Changed the privacy policy, in response to a post on X to clarify that the plan is to use “public data only, not direct messages or anything private.”
X no longer responds to press requests With poop emoji As happened after Musk acquired the social network. Instead, we received an automated response saying “We’ll get back to you shortly.” If this actually turns out to be true, we will add comment X.