Elon Musk-owned social media platform, X updated their privacy policy to indicate an allowance of third-party collaborators as a part of training their AI models. The platform has been sending a popup notification to their users informing the changes in terms and conditions. According to reports, the new privacy policy will come into effect by November 15.
X, formerly popular as Twitter, has updated their privacy policies allowing third-party collaborators to access the X data to train their artificial intelligence models unless users prefer an opt-out from the service.
X asks permission from the users to have access to their data by popping up a message notification to grant access, accepting the terms and conditions allow an outside company to access a user’s data.
The updated policy states, “Based on your settings or data-sharing preferences, we may share your information with third-party companies. If you do not opt-out in some instances, the recipient of the information may use it for their own independent purpose in addition to those stated in X’s privacy policy, including for example, to train their artificial models, whether generative or otherwise.”
As per the statement, a user has to go to the settings to toggle off data sharing but didn’t mention the specific location. According to experts, a user has to select the ‘privacy and safety’ section in the settings to turn on or turn off data sharing with any third parties.
By licensing the data to a third party, X also exploits the potential of increasing their source of revenue as it is facing a decline in ad revenue. Due to the strict data permission law of the EU, X is not planning to share the European citizen’s data with third parties or train their AI models.
Till now, X has not revealed how the users can opt out of the terms and services in the future, which may be added by November 15 since then the privacy policy comes into effect.
The policy also states that the information can be available anywhere even after removing from the X platform.
The company has removed a clause from its statement saying it keeps the user profile information for the duration of an account, which was then replaced with “ different types of information for different periods, depending on how long we need to retain it in order to provide you with our products and services, to comply with our legal requirements and for safety and security reasons.” It mentions that as part of this, usage information such as the “content you post” and your interactions with others’ content will be retained. for “the duration of your account or until such content is removed.”
Earlier this year, Reddit also made a similar deal with Google, enabling them to use the posts from the Reddit platform to train AI models after a paywall was thrown up around its API in late 2003.
In addition to the privacy policies, X has separately added a new ‘liquidation damage’ section to the terms and service.
According to the updated policy, any organization scrapping the X content is subject to penalties, especially for requesting, viewing, or accessing more than a million posts a day will be liable to a penalty of $15000.
It’s not the first time scraping is controlled at X, last year the company temporarily blocked people from viewing tweets without logging in, and also removed the API behind a paywall hindering the ability to learn what’s happening inside the platform.
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