Twitter is using your data to train its AI chatbot, but you can opt out

Social media platforms are doing their best to gather as much user data as possible for AI training purposes, but they can't technically force you to agree to it (despite their efforts to do so).

X (Formerly Twitter) recently added a new data sharing setting regarding user data being applied to training its AI chatbot, called Grok. Of course, all users are automatically opted in to this new setting. So if you don't want Twitter using your data for this purpose, you're going to have to actively opt out yourself.

Doing that is, thankfully, relatively easy (if you have the right instructions to follow). The easiest and quickest way is to opt out here. Uncheck the box and you should be good to go, but it doesn't hurt to exit out of the page and go back in again just to make sure the new setting sticks.

Grok is X (Formerly Twitter)'s AI chatbot. It is labeled as a "humorous AI search assistant." (Named, of course, after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.) It is advertised as being able to answer and suggest questions and is described as "witty." It's supposed to be like ChatGPT, but funnier.

Grok is said to pull real-time data from the platform and will answer so-called "spicy" questions that other AI will typically refuse to answer.

While Twitter has been open about public user data for Grok training purposes, it, much like Instagram's recent setting, has made it harder than necessary for users to opt out of something they didn't technically consent to in the first place. The setting linked to above exists, but it's buried deep enough that you (like me) might consider giving up after seemingly clicking on every option the platform gives you before it appears.

There is no guarantee that unchecking this box will actually do anything, but for peace of mind, it's there for anyone who needs it.