- Elon Musk's X has enabled default settings for training the AI chatbot Grok based on user data.
- Users can disable data sharing in X's “Privacy and Safety” tab.
- ChatGPT's competitor, Grok, is available through a premium subscription.
Your unfiltered thoughts are about to become training data for one of the craziest AI chatbots on the market.
By default, X has enabled a setting that allows access to user posts, interactions, and inputs as training data for Grok, the company's ChatGPT competitor.
If you want to disable it, follow these steps:
Once you're in X, go to the left menu and click on “More.”
Then select the Settings and Privacy tab at the bottom.
Under that tab, go to the “Privacy and Safety” option.
Next, scroll down and uncheck the box next to Grok.
Grok was first made available to X users last year, but is now available to all users through a premium subscription. X owner Elon Musk touts Grok's love of sarcasm and “a dash of humor” in its replies, in part because it provides real-time access to a ton of user posts.
The bot has two modes: a “normal mode” that provides straightforward answers, and a “fun mode” that emphasizes sarcasm and humor.
Musk said on Spaces last year that he wanted Grok to be known as the most entertaining AI: “I mean, if you ask Grok to make you a nasty roast, it's really tasty,” he said.
It remains to be seen how interesting Grok would be if it didn't allow anyone to train it with their own data.
