When the policy takes effect, users are automatically opted in until they opt out. 'Depending on your settings, or if you decide to share your data, we may share or disclose your information with third parties,' the updated policy reads.
In some instances the recipients of the information may use it for their own independent purposes in addition to those stated in X's Privacy Policy, including, for example, to train their artificial intelligence models, whether generative or otherwise.
This is the latest arms race. Everyone is working towards AI supremacy,' said Ritesh Kotak, a cybersecurity and technology analyst based in Toronto. 'The more data sets you have, the more people that are involved in that data is collected from, the more accurate your model is going to be.'
As user data becomes an increasingly valuable resource, social media platforms are sitting on a goldmine and selling that information to artificial intelligence companies is a lucrative business.
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