Sharing Is Caring At some point, X-formerly-Twitter auto-opted its users into sharing their data with Grok, owner Elon Musk’s unfunny “anti-woke” chatbot — without bothering to tell users about the change. Flagged by Rolling Stone’s Noah Shachtman, it remains unclear when X introduced this so-called “data sharing” change that authorizes the social network to use your tweets to train Musk’s shoddy ChatGPT competitor. Twitter has opted you into training Elon's weirdo A.I. Click here to opt out: https://t.co/0ThK2aMaA6 pic.twitter.com/4ZGf0Fhprv — Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 26, 2024 As Shachtman notes, opting out of having your data included in Grok’s training pool is as simple as de-selecting the allowance in your settings. Nevertheless, it’s super sketchy that everyone was automatically opted in without being informed, and that nobody knows how long this has been going on. Forgiveness, Not Permission Beyond not informing users that it’s using their data, X also appears to not have told regulators about the change, either. In a statement to TechCrunch, a spokesperson for the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which acts as X’s European watchdog, said the agency was taken by surprise when it learned that the social network had automatically opted users into allowing their tweets to be used as AI training data. “The DPC has been engaging with X on this matter for a number of months, with our latest interaction occurring as recently as yesterday,” Graham Doyle, the DPC’s deputy commissioner, told the site. “Therefore we are surprised by today’s developments.” As TechCrunch notes, European Union…Elon Musk Is Now Using Your Tweets to Train His Weird AI. Here's How to Turn It Off.