{"id":16047,"date":"2024-09-27T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/companies-building-ai-powered-tech-are-using-your-posts-heres-how-to-opt-out\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:37:57","slug":"companies-building-ai-powered-tech-are-using-your-posts-heres-how-to-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/companies-building-ai-powered-tech-are-using-your-posts-heres-how-to-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here\u2019s how to opt out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you haven\u2019t knowingly opted in, companies are still scraping your personal information to train their systems<\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column <\/em><em>in which we help you navigate <\/em><em>your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. If you\u2019d like to skip to a section about a particular site or social network, click the \u201cJump to\u201d menu at the top of this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The competition to make the latest, greatest, most advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> <em>thing<\/em> has turned an already data-hungry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/technology\">tech industry<\/a> ravenous. Companies looking to build out their AI-powered search engines, smart email composers or chatbots are scraping your posts and personal data and using them to train those systems, which need ever-increasing amounts of text and images.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/27\/gmail-meta-x-ai-data-privacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/06e9997d3c190b5247f5e12329391972dd2e8cbe\/0_53_8002_4802\/master\/8002.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0c8cde613e7a7ccf15edf1d6bf02cf17\" title=\"Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here\u2019s how to opt out\" \/>Even if you haven\u2019t knowingly opted in, companies are still scraping your personal information to train their systems<br \/>\nWelcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. If you\u2019d like to skip to a section about a particular site or social network, click the \u201cJump to\u201d menu at the top of this article.<br \/>\nThe competition to make the latest, greatest, most advanced artificial intelligence thing has turned an already data-hungry tech industry ravenous. Companies looking to build out their AI-powered search engines, smart email composers or chatbots are scraping your posts and personal data and using them to train those systems, which need ever-increasing amounts of text and images. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you haven\u2019t knowingly opted in, companies are still scraping your personal information to train their systems Welcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. If you\u2019d like to skip to a section about a particular site &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/companies-building-ai-powered-tech-are-using-your-posts-heres-how-to-opt-out\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here\u2019s how to opt out<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}