Your information and how you interact with LinkedIn is helping to train AI. If you don't want that to happen, you can opt out and check what it already knows.

LinkedIn has been using your personal data to train its AI models. However, changes in its policy was only made last week.

The data collected for the Generative AI Improvement program is used to “improve or develop the LinkedIn services,” LinkedIn said.

LinkedIn has come under fire for automatically opting its users into a program that uses their data for training generative AI models. This revelation, first reported by 404Media, sparked privacy concerns among users who were unaware of the change.

The U.K.'s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data for AI model training for now. Eagle-eyed privacy experts had already spotted a quiet edit LinkedIn made to its privacy policy after a backlash over grabbing people's info to train AIs — adding the U.