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Get the Facts: Is your data helping tech companies train their AI tools?

Some claims on social media suggest tech companies like Meta, Google and LinkedIn are using your personal data to train their AI tools. Our partners at PolitiFact looked into how they are actually ...
Futurism

Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots are currently Looney Tunes slapstick disasters. But there’s a massive effort behind the scenes to make sure they don’t stay clumsy clankers forever. Enter Tesla’s secret lab ...
PC Magazine

LinkedIn Is Using More User Data Than Ever to Train Its AI. Here's How to Opt Out

LinkedIn Is Using More User Data Than Ever to Train Its AI. Here's How to Opt Out As of Nov. 3, LinkedIn is now using data from members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong to train its ...
Los Angeles Times

Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and ...
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LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI models unless you opt out

Back in September 2025, LinkedIn announced plans to begin using member profiles, posts, resumes, and public activity to train its artificial intelligence models. The professional networking platform ...
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
Reuters

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
Boston Herald

Train stabbing spurs outcry over Black-on-white violence, but data shows such occurrences are rare

After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her home country was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about ...
PC World

LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI models. Here’s how to opt out

Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn will soon start using the data of its users to train its AI models, reports Windows Latest. The platform has sent out emails to users about the change, ...
Business Insider

AI training companies are raising billions to get humans to teach chatbots. Here are the startups cashing in.

Tech's latest gold rush is using humans to train AI chatbots. Startups in the field are raising at soaring valuations and minting America's youngest billionaires. Business Insider compiled a list of ...