On the agenda…

You may not have realised it but every time you posted on LinkedIn last week – even the times when you really should have been doing something more productive – you were inadvertently helping to train its AI models.

The business-focused social media platform quietly opted all of its users into agreeing to use their data (from posts, articles and videos) to help train its generative AI tools. There was a button, of course, hidden in the deepest, darkest section of your user settings to turn it off but, for most of us, we probably didn’t even know we’d agreed to it in the first place.

What is LinkedIn going to use this data for? It’s to help it help you, of course. You may have noticed that posting on LinkedIn these days comes replete with a shiny button to ‘Rewrite with AI’ in the hopes that even your most half-baked point could resemble something coherent by the time it is finished with it. It may even have hashtags. And emojis.