How to stop X from using your posts to train its AI assistant

X uses your data to train its Grok AI assistant. You can opt out through your settings menu. You can access it on the web by clicking the three-dot menu, then “Settings and privacy,” then “Privacy and safety,” and finally “Grok.”

X’s @Safety account announced on Friday that this setting is now available to all users on the web and will soon be available on mobile. In the settings menu, you can uncheck a box to opt out of allowing “your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning purposes” and sharing data about your interactions with xAI. Another way to opt out is by having a private account, which “prevents your posts from being used to train Grok’s underlying model or to generate responses to user queries.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All X users have the ability to control whether their public posts can be used to train Grok, the AI search assistant. This option is in addition to your existing controls over whether your interactions, inputs, and results related to Grok can be utilized. This setting is…</p>&mdash; Safety (@Safety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Safety/status/1816874083721838921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It needs to be clarified when this setting first became available. It came to our attention through a few widely shared posts, but an archived version of X’s About page for Grok from May mentioned the steps to find the setting.

You can also delete your conversation history with Grok. However, you may not have any, as Grok is only available to those who subscribe to X Premium or the more expensive Premium Plus.

It is common for X to inform users that it trains its AI tools on user data. The company’s privacy policy, last updated in September 2023, states that “we may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy.”

Privacy settings for Grok AI assistant

X’s @Safety account wrote on Friday that the setting is available to all users on the web now and “will soon be rolled out on mobile.”

In the menu, you can uncheck a box to opt out of allowing “your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning purposes” and sharing data about your interactions with xAI. Another way to opt out is to have a private account, which “prevents your posts from being used to train Grok’s underlying model or to generate responses to user queries.”

It needs to be made clear when the setting first becomes available. It came to our attention through a few widely shared posts, but an archived version of X’s About page for Grok from May mentioned the steps to find the setting.

You can also delete your conversation history with Grok. However, you may not have any, as Grok is only available to those who subscribe to X Premium or the more expensive Premium Plus.

It is common for X to inform users that it trains its AI tools on user data. The company’s privacy policy, last updated in September 2023, states that “we may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy.”

Opt-out of AI data training

X’s @Safety account wrote on Friday that the setting is available to all users on the web now and “will soon be rolled out on mobile.”

In the menu, you can uncheck a box to opt out of allowing “your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning purposes” and sharing data about your interactions with xAI. Another way to opt out is to have a private account, which “prevents your posts from being used to train Grok’s underlying model or to generate responses to user queries.”

It needs to be made clear when the setting first becomes available. It came to our attention through a few widely shared posts, but an archived version of X’s About page for Grok from May mentioned the steps to find the setting.

You can also delete your conversation history with Grok. However, you may not have any, as Grok is only available to those who subscribe to X Premium or the more expensive Premium Plus.

It is common for X to inform users that it trains its AI tools on user data. The company’s privacy policy, last updated in September 2023, states that “we may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy.”