This is the simple trick to disable it

Less than three months have passed since X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, launched Grok, its own assistant based on artificial intelligence, in Europe, and it is already the protagonist of its first major controversy. And it turns out that Elon Musk has given himself permission to use your data to improve this AI.

Grok was born in response to ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini; In response to these projects, Elon Musk called Grok a an AI “with a sense of humor”, “ingenious” and with “a rebellious side”. All this means that conversations with Grok are more informal; the AI ​​is not afraid to swear and answer questions that its rivals might not answer for fear of saying the wrong thing. If many people do not know Grok, it is because it is an exclusive function for Premium X users, who must pay 11 dollars per month on Android to be able to access this and other functions such as the invoicing of our tweets.

Today, Grok is on everyone’s lips, but unfortunately not for good reasons. X users have just discovered that Grok is training thanks to their photos, videos and posts on the social network; and the worst part is that he does it without asking express permission and without warning that he does so. An important detail is that Grok is trained with the data of all users, even if they are not Premium.

Beyond the possible legal consequences (especially in the European Union), it is a decision that is harshly criticized in viral posts on X, warning users who were unaware of the existence of Grok and explaining how to disable this option.

In a hidden option in the X account settings we can find a section titled “Data Exchange”; Under this name that says nothing hides the option that allows us to use our publications for the “training and development” of Grok. It is enabled by default, so if we do not want our data and photos to be used for this purpose, we must disable it manually.

To disable the use of our posts to train X’s AI, we have two options. We can enter this link directly, which will take us to the option to disable it. Another way is to enter Twitter’s settings, either on the web or in the mobile app, Click on “Privacy and Security” and click on the “Grok” link in the “Data exchange and personalization” section.

Having this option enabled by default means that X now has access to a gigantic database to train its AI and make it superior to ChatGPT, created by OpenAI.

Recall that Elon Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI, but he left the organization before the public launch of ChatGPT; a decision he may regret, as he has since harshly criticized it, predicting the end of humanity because of AI while investing millions in gigantic AI processing centers for Grok.