2023-09-04 15:07:09
In its new privacy policy, which will come into effect at the end of September, the social network indicates that it could use public data to train its artificial intelligence models.
X (ex-Twitter) does not only plan to use its users’ biometric data for security and identification purposes. Another subpart of the new privacy policy of the social network, which will come into effect at the end of September, indicates that their information could be exploited to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A change noted by Alex Ivanovs de Stack Diary.
Just public data, not DMs or anything private
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 31, 2023
“We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models”, says the company in its new policy. On X, Elon Musk clarified that only public data would be used by the company, not private messages or any other information considered private.
X, data source for future xAI models
This announcement comes nearly two months after the launch of xAI, a startup dedicated to AI, by Elon Musk. With this, the billionaire wants to compete with OpenAI and its famous chatbot, ChatGPT. On son sitethe young shoot indicates that, although it is a separate company from X Corp – holding company controlling the social network – it will work “working closely with X (Twitter), Tesla and other companies to progress towards [sa] mission »who is from “understanding the true nature of the universe”.
According to Alex Ivanovs, Elon Musk plans to use the platform as a data source for xAI. He even believes that the billionaire’s recent tweet encouraging journalists to write about X was an attempt to obtain data to use to train his startup’s AI models.
This announcement is not really a surprise, as the boss of Tesla has already said in the past that xAI will use public tweets to train its AI models. It comes as he has accused other tech giants, including Microsoft, of exploiting X to train their models, even threatening the Redmond firm with a possible lawsuit for illegally training its AI technologies with X. social network data.
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