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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 17:58:38 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Still on X? Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit https://x.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.

   • Maybe(oz) (oz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:07:26 UTC Maybe(oz)

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff Sure, let's train a LLM on bigotry and hatred. 🤣

   • Old Man in the Shoe (jenzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:15:44 UTC Old Man in the Shoe

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff Surprised the EFF stance isn't to get off Twitter entirely.

   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:45:44 UTC Juan Astudillo

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     Being cynical, it is possible for X to make it so that opting out for data collection on their platform won't actually do anything at all (except for poviding an aditional datapoint about your preferences to the company).

   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:48:24 UTC Juan Astudillo

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff

     Being cynical, it is possible for X (or any other online platform) to make it so that opting out for data collection on their platform won't actually do anything at all (except for poviding an aditional datapoint about your preferences to the company).

   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 18:49:29 UTC Juan Astudillo

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff

     Being cynical, it is possible for X (or any other online platform) to make it so that opting out for data collection on their client won't actually do anything at all (except for providing them with an aditional datapoint about your preferences for the company).

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 19:59:15 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     It won't be visible on mobile.

   • Tony (awstephen@mastodon.au)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 19:59:42 UTC Tony

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff that is not a settings option in Australia?

   • Holly (gikkt@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 19:59:42 UTC Holly

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation
     • Tony

     @AWStephen @eff I didn't see the setting either and I'm in the US.

   • Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge: (bm_bourguignon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:03:29 UTC Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge:

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation
     • Jor ☝️😐

     @eff
     Ypu can't access this link through Firefox Mobile.
     @jor

   • mrnhmath (mrnhmath@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:15:13 UTC mrnhmath

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff The only X I know is the X Window System.

   • dannyj991 (dannyj991@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:49:52 UTC dannyj991

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff That seems like a REALLY bad idea. There is just so much wrong and biased information on X, I can't imagine any of it helping an LLM improve it's accuracy.

   • Dr. Evil Engineer (captainnemo99@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:55:54 UTC Dr. Evil Engineer

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff X can glady use my shit posts to train their AI. That dumpster fire can only get worse.

   • Chairman Steve (stevenally@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 22:04:47 UTC Chairman Steve

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff

     The Sheeple. God bless em, tamely being fleeced by Elon.

   • Sarah (sarah654@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 00:14:51 UTC Sarah

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

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   • Juan Astudillo (astudillojuanf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 00:59:17 UTC Juan Astudillo

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff I've seen people recommend to simply opt-out from Grok telemetry, delete the app and use X from the web client. Many may already know this approach is sub-optimal, but, for the few who may still not be aware of it:

     To prevent X from collecting your data, using the web client rather than the app only helps to reduce the amount at best, the app might collect a little more data than the web client overall, but not by much. The data they want the most is usually collected from the server side.

   • SaftyKuma (saftykuma@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 02:56:46 UTC SaftyKuma

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff Yeah, this prompted me to log in for the first time in over a year to finally just delete my account.

     No reason to stay on this lunatic's site.

   • Blinxeto (blinxeto@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 11:03:17 UTC Blinxeto

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff