Your information and how you interact with LinkedIn is helping to train AI. If you don't want that to happen, you can opt out and check what it already knows.

"Like other features on LinkedIn, when you engage with generative AI powered features we process your interactions with the feature, which may include personal data (e.g., your inputs and resulting outputs, your usage information, your language preference, and any feedback you provide)," the platform said in its help section.

The data collected for the Generative AI Improvement program is used to “improve or develop the LinkedIn services,” LinkedIn said.

If you’re in a country where LinkedIn has started using your data for AI training, it’s easy to stop it. Go to the data privacy section in settings and switch the “Use my data for training content creation AI models” toggle to off.

The UK's data watchdog said it raised concerns over LinkedIn's approach to using UK data to train AI.

LinkedIn is using people’s personal data to train AI models - Users can opt out – but their information will be used until they do so

Broadcaster Kel Richards says LinkedIn is being “sneaky” by automatically making users give their data to train its own AI model.

LinkedIn has halted training AI models using users’ personal data in the UK as the social media platform succumbed to pressure from regulators. Regulators in the UK raised concerns over LinkedIn’s alleged breach of data privacy.

LinkedIn suspends AI training with UK user data after ICO intervention. Tech giants face scrutiny over data privacy in AI development.