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LinkedIn in is under fire as they’ve started to use user-generated content to train its AI systems without first having asked its users for permission to do so.

In its updated privacy policy, LinkedIn revealed that posts, articles, and other types of content shared on the platform may be used to improve the performance of its AI models. While the platform has added an opt-out option, it appears that users were automatically included in this process without any initial consent.

How Does LinkedIn’s AI Work With Personal Data?

LinkedIn’s AI is made as a tool to assist users by suggesting content creation ideas, drafting messages, and giving users other types of automated responses. The system relies on personal data, such as user posts and articles, to train the AI…

Longtime users of X, formerly Twitter, got a nasty surprise Friday when they learned that a new setting on the platform opts them in for AI training on their posts and interactions. That means Grok, X’s AI platform, by default can suck up that data and learn from it unless you change your settings to block that.

It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise; X has changed its terms of service to pave the way for this. Last year, the service began collecting biometric data as well as employment and school history, as part of a move to use public data to train its AI. But now its user settings have selected this as an opted-in default choice, at least on the desktop version of the platform.

Read more: How to Opt Out of Instagram and Facebook Using Your Posts for AI

The text, in settings…

Viral photos of a man on a train are being shared with the suggestion they show the former director of Russia’s Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was widely reported to have died last year. 

The photos show the profile of a man looking out of the window on a train. They have been shared on Facebook with captions including: “HE HAS RISEN Yvgeny Prigozhin spotted on a train peeps” and “Prigozhin on the train?.Mastermind of Wagner Group is not dead? [sic]”.

The photos from the train appear to have first been shared by an X account with the handle @runews on 13 March, months after the date he is believed to have died. The post has more than 3,700 shares and the caption: “What?”

While it is possible that this is an old photo of Mr Prigozhin that has…

A photo of a train carriage where all but one of the women are wearing religious dress has been shared with claims it shows Malmö in Sweden, but it was almost certainly taken in Egypt.  

One post, with more than 1,300 shares, says: “This is not Iran, this is Malmö, Sweden, which is occupied by Islam”. 

However, this photo does not come from Malmö, which has no metro or tram system operating within the city (although a metro line connecting it to Copenhagen in Denmark has been proposed). 

Skanetrafiken, the company responsible for public transport networks in Malmö, confirmed to Full Fact that “it’s not a picture from Malmö”. 

Footage of trains that connect Malmö to other places in Sweden are visibly different to the carriage in the image. The metro

BET has announced that Keke Palmer will host the 2023 Soul Train Awards.

The show, taking place in Los Angeles, will reimagine the traditional award show format by celebrating R&B with a soulful house party.

“BET asked your girl to host this year’s Soul Train Awards and you know it’s about to be lit,” gushed the mother of one in the official promo video. “Grown, sexy, real cute or whatever—unlike any other because I’m doing it my way,” she sang in the tune of Usher.