LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users (hostvix.com)

good insight

So, soon we will see AI generated job descriptions for American companies offering 6-month paternity leave and 30 days/year paid vacations?

Glad I never had an account on LinkedIn

I wonder what this will do for enterprise sales posting

You can opt out here: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/data-for-a...

link to opt out: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...

> The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training

"Legitimate interest" is a very specific term in context of GDPR. Not a lawyer, but have been looking into it previously, and I doubt "we want to feed data to our AI so we can make more money" passes the Legitimate Interest Assesment (LIA) test.

Here's an example of a test that must pass (sorry, docx, but way better than a random explainer): https://ico.org.uk/media2/for-organisations/forms/2258435/gd...

These days LinkedIn is a cesspool of AI-generated feel-good “inspirational” content anyway… I don’t see anything good coming out of training models from its user data.

Great! Now AI will be optimized for humble-bragging about thought leadership and congratulating connections on work anniversaries they forgot about.

As far as I can tell, LinkedIn's content is already 99% LLM generated posts.

The resulting models might be a terrible hybrid distillation of GPT5 and Claude with a strong preference for hustle culture & banal parables.

There's a film about this, Multiplicity.

I've said this elsewhere: The EU should crack down on this. Opt-out is not acceptable behavior.

i'm excited to find out what AI will learn about b2b sales from all the cringe posts.

Because of course they do lol

Stop AI-ifying your platforms

Seeing that LinkedIn these days is 90% AI-slop, wouldn't this mean that the AI is being trained by AI?

This is an incredibly dangerous development - when Ai learns the grind and hustle it is going to accelerate the timeline to Judgement day.

Only the people with the right grindset that do a 4am ice face bath will survive.

LinkedIn is becoming the other Facebook...

What is it with American big tech and blatant disregard for EU privacy laws.

“Legitimate interest” is being used here to skirt around the need for consent (I.e. explicit opt-in) specifically because they know users will not give consent (otherwise they could easily ask them). That is an immediate red flag when it comes to “balancing” the rights and needs of the user vs the data processors “legitimate interest”.

i.e. big fine incoming for LinkedIn.

Quality of LinkedIn feeds is the lowest of all social network sites I occasionally view. Instagram at least has attractive people and puppies.

I don't know if it's AI slop or people genuinely baring their souls and revealing corpo-BS pseudo-deep thoughts, with a drop of grifters pushing their BS "Uber but for nailcare on Blockchain" whitepapers, either way I don't see any value you could extract from it.

The part that really gets me is that opting out doesn't affect models already trained on my data. It kinda feels like closing the barn door after the horse has already bolted.

is this what they mean by eat your own dog food

I wish them the best of luck with that.

Short of 4chan it's hard to think of a worse dataset. Do you really want a model trained on corporate thought leader gibberish?

It is infuriating that this thing is opt-out instead of opt-in, irregardless of advanced notice to configure it.

Maybe it will finally start recommending better cheese. My feed is so boring.