At the beginning of November last year There was a global Groka announcement, the first major creation of xAI, the artificial intelligence company created by Elon Musk. The idea was to stand at the forefront of AI, to innovate by breaking with everything that has been established so far, to show that his project is much more innovative and impressive than what the rest of the companies in the sector can offer… in short, rock it, colloquially .

So waiting for something really surprising that would leave us speechless and that would make Musk a visionary again, In the end, they surprised us with… a chatbot. Yes, with a chatbot, in November 2023. But hey, it’s not going to be just any chatbot, we’re told it’s going to have personality, it’s going to have a sense of humor, and it’s going to be a little rowdy and even lazy. Well, his project was to create Twitter users, but with artificial intelligence.

So yes the idea is that Grok is kind of like a Twitter user who knows a lot about everything and who also has a certain reserve, what better than to turn to the very source of knowledge? In addition, given that both the social network and the AI ​​company are owned by Musk, and that Grok is initially offered to Twitter Premium subscribers, we can say that everything is kept in-house. As we told you back then, the generative model that gives life to this friendly chatbot is fueled by the social network’s own messages.

The problem is, as many users have started reporting in recent days, Twitter adjusted user account settings to train Grok without informing. This means that if you’re a Twitter user, even if you haven’t explicitly agreed to it, xAI is already using your contributions to train the generative model that gives life to Grok. And this applies to all accounts without exception.

The good news is, At least you can turn it off immediately. To do this from the web version, click on this link and go directly to the specified configuration. Otherwise, if you’re going to manage it from the app, tap Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Grok. This will enable the option to “Allow your contributions, as well as your interactions, records and results with Grok to be used for training and improvement”. Now you just have to uncheck it and your messages will no longer be used for chatbot training.

NowThe big question is whether the European Union will open an investigation into the matter., as it seems quite likely that Twitter and xAI have breached current legislation in the common European space. In that case, we would find ourselves facing another clash between the EU and Musk, like the one recently announced by the European Commission over the unstable policy of the social network with the verified one.