In November last year, the arrival of Grok was officially announced, the sarcastic artificial intelligence developed by xAI with which Elon Musk hopes to compete with ChatGPT, from OpenAI. Musk himself announced in March of this year that Grok would become an open source platform, which he achieved a few days later.
Behind Grok is Grok-1, a large language model (LLM) designed to answer virtually any question with a touch of humor and sarcasm. The chatbot is available for X Premium and Premium+ subscribers and in Europe we can use it since last May, because until then it was not available.
We can prevent our positions from being used to train Grok
As with any other AI model, a huge amount of data is needed to train an AI like X’s. As the company itself explains, Grok-1 was trained using a large number of publicly available sources on the internet.
The company clarifies that Grok-1 has not been pre-trained with X’s data (such as the posts we make on the platform). They can nevertheless use our posts and interactions on the platform to improve Grok performance.
At this point, you’re probably wondering if there’s anything you can do to prevent your posts from being used
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We don’t know exactly how long this option has been available in the platform settings, but as can be seen in the screenshot of the tweet published by one of the users of the social network, the fact that the option appears enabled by default generates some discontent.
For prevent our posts from being used to train AIyou just need to follow these steps:
- Click on the “More options” button
- Go to “Settings and Privacy”
- Go to the “Privacy and Security” section
- In the “Data Exchange and Personalization” section you will find the “Grok” option.
- Once here you will need to disable the option “Allow the use of your posts, as well as your interactions, entries and results with Grok, for training and improvement purposes”
At this point we must take into account that It is only possible to disable this option from the browserbecause the menu is currently not available in the X app for iOS or Android.
Once you have completed the previous steps, you can be sure that your posts will not be used to train the artificial intelligence model used by xAI.
Finally, the platform explains that we can also prevent the use of our publications to train its AI. make our account private.
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