Elon Musk’s X to leverage public data for AI model training

Elon Musk's X revealed its plans to utilize user data and publicly available information in training AI models. Despite Musk's assurance that only public data will be used, concerns around privacy linger.

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X's approach to AI training

• Under the most recent privacy policy, X will harness the personal data it collects and publicly accessible information for its machine learning algorithms.
• Musk assures only publicly accessible data will be used, safeguarding private user information like DMs.
• However, with X having disbanded its press operation, more specific details about the data collected and its intended use still need to be provided.

Unfolding plans of Musk

• Despite X's quiet stance on AI, Musk recently launched xAI, aspiring "to understand the true nature of the universe."
• xAI's homepage discloses plans to sync with X closely, possibly using collected user data to progress the mission.
• A competitive stance against LinkedIn suggests a possible additional motive for data collection, speculating an enhanced job and education section on X.
• Despite concerns about selling user data for revenue, concrete evidence is needed to support this argument, reflecting Twitter's previous strategy.

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