FYI: LinkedIn has "Data for GenAI Improvement" turned ON, by default

2 neofrommatrix 2 5/30/2025, 11:06:28 PM

It's under Settings ->Data Privacy -> How LinkedIn uses your data ..

There was no announcement about this. It's opt-out by default.

Comments (2)

sky2224 · 20h ago

Do you mean opt-in by default? It was on for me without my knowledge. Very gross behavior on their part.

neofrommatrix · 1h ago

Yep; meant opt-in, by default

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FYI: LinkedIn has "Data for GenAI Improvement" turned ON, by default

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