this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
38 points (97.5% liked)

Privacy

2577 readers
432 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
  • LinkedIn will use customer data to train its AI models from November 2025
  • EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong users all affected
  • Users will be opted in by default
top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Assuming you need to keep your account for work, here are the direct links:

  1. Go to this page and turn it off: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement
  2. Submit this form: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DPRO

In addition:

[–] teft@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago

As if they weren't already doing it without your permission.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

I fucking hate this. Fuck social network companies.

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Train for what? What data is there except for resumes and advertisements?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They'll probably sell a hirability model based on your resume and similar ones with jobs

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This, and I predict it will

  1. (Work and) sell exceptionally well, since the data is definitely more curated than on other platforms

  2. Fuck up the job market even further somehow

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

The fuck up the job market is totally going to be for new grads and people who had to take medical leave or care for a loved one or even took parental leave.

But I look forward to whatever other fucked up issues it creates. I’m sure it will be awful.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Soon as I got the email, I read through it, clicked the link, and disabled that. And then later shared direct quotes around (through WhatsApp Status. Unfortunate, but it's the only means I have to quickly get to as many people — without directly spamming messages around)

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Now introducing artificial stupidity, trained on the stupidest place in the internet