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Twitter/X Will Use Your Posts For AI Training And There's No Opting Out

For those who haven't seen this yet and maintain a Twitter/X presence, if you've got writing or art on there that you don't want to give to AI training - it's probably being used at this moment for training Grok, but if you clear it out right now you may be able to prevent it from being sold to other entities.

As per the company's updated Terms of Service, users who post, submit, or display content on Twitter now automatically grant the platform a "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed, for any purpose."

This license includes the right for Twitter to analyze the text and other information you provide and leverage it to enhance its services, including "for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type."

Moreover, Twitter reserves the right to make your content "available to other companies, organizations or individuals, including, for example, for improving the Services and the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services," presumably suggesting that not only can Twitter itself use your artwork to train its AI models, but it can also share it with other developers who'd be willing to help the platform "improve the Services".

It's possible that this may lead to an additional influx of users from there, but I think most of them are going to Bluesky right now. Just trying to keep people aware since many keep multiple social media presences and may have a legacy Twitter account they aren't using (but don't want Elon to use either).

EDIT FOR CLARITY - I'm being pessimistic about the Grok thing because Elon plays fast and loose with legal requirements for things (hence how he got maneuvered into buying the site in the first place), but by the actual statements of Twitter/X the terms of use changes go into effect November 15th.