LinkedIn changed this data privacy setting without notifying members, which means many members are now automatically opted-in to allow LinkedIn AI to use your personal data and content for training LinkedIn's generative AI content.
UK listeners read this - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89x4y1pmgo
Key moments in this episode:
00:00 Urgent Announcement
01:16 LinkedIn's Automatic Opt-In for AI Training
02:02 How to Opt Out of LinkedIn's AI Training
02:50 Personal Experience and Concerns
04:19 Final Thoughts
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00:00:00
Michelle J Raymond: G'day everyone.
00:00:00
It is Coach Michelle J Raymond.
00:00:02
I've got a really important public service announcement.
00:00:06
This is only going to be quick, but something changed on LinkedIn this week and it's a
00:00:10
settings change, which I can't believe that they just did it without letting us know.
00:00:15
And I think it's really important that you are aware because you are automatically
00:00:20
opted in as a yes you agree to this setting, even without knowing about it.
00:00:27
And I think it's really uncool by LinkedIn.
00:00:47
Now, a couple of disclaimers here.
00:00:49
If you are in Europe, I think your GDPR laws cover you and you may not have had this happen to you.
00:00:55
If you're in the UK, I know that one of the governing bodies over there literally
00:01:00
called LinkedIn out, put a stop to this and said, we need to talk about this before you
00:01:05
automatically opt in people from the UK.
00:01:09
Here in Australia, it's still switched on automatically.
00:01:13
And in the US I believe it's the same at this point in time.
00:01:16
So let's talk about how you are now opted in as a yes automatically to choosing
00:01:25
your content to train the generative AI.
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So everything that you do on LinkedIn is helping train the generative AI.
00:01:34
Because this is such a big deal, I just want you to have the choice.
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If you are someone that goes, who cares?
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That's the way of the world.
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Just leave it on, you know, can't stop it.
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It's their platform.
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Then that's fine.
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But if you are someone that doesn't want that to happen, I want you to have the
00:01:53
way that you can easily switch this off.
00:01:55
So you can opt out.
00:02:02
If you want to go and check this setting for yourself, here's how you do it.
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Log into LinkedIn, top right hand corner, click on your photo and go down to settings and privacy.
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That will open up a new window and on the left hand side, you have data privacy.
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So click on that.
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And then under the, how LinkedIn uses your data, there is a data for generative AI improvement.
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I'm just going to read exactly what it comes up with so that you're kept in the loop as well.
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So it says data for generative AI improvement.
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Can LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to
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train generative AI models that create content?
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They have you automatically opted in, like I said, but you can switch it off.
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I have to say I am super passionate about switching this off for myself because I
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have a LinkedIn premium account, and I have clicked around and tried some of those
00:03:01
AI responses that come when you want to find out more info on a particular topic.
00:03:05
And these little prompts show up underneath posts.
00:03:08
And I had a look at one of the ones that said, find out more about page advocacy,
00:03:13
which is a term that I created for my podcast about half a dozen episodes ago.
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I thought this will be interesting.
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Let me go and have a look and see what it has to say about something that I created.
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And it kind of regurgitated back what I had written about on LinkedIn.
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So I do newsletters and I've spoken about it in posts and I know that nobody else has
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spoken about it because I created it and I did a whole bunch of research beforehand.
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And let's be clear, not too many other people on LinkedIn are talking
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about company pages as much as I am.
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And lo and behold, it basically regurgitated back my words.
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But it didn't give me any credits.
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And that's the piece of the puzzle that I'm so mad about.
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I love the idea that they can use my work, but credit where credit's due.
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I don't want to live in a world where you can just take anybody's work and present
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it as your own by mixing it all up.
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And I appreciate that maybe there's no real original concepts anymore, but I
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don't want to let go of the, you know, just giving credit to people who have
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worked hard to come up with original ideas.
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So go and check it out for yourself.
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There's no right or wrong, but I want you to make sure that you have consciously
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had the opportunity to make a choice.
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That's best for you.
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Until next week.
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Cheers.
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