LinkedIn AI Training — 60s explainer (C05)

01 / 08 · Setup

YOUR LINKEDIN PROFILE.

who is it for?

02 / 08 · Tension

RECRUITERS ? FOR MICROSOFT'S AI.

since September 2024

03 / 08 · Reveal

USE DATA FOR GENERATIVE AI

setting buried 3 menus deep · default ON

04 / 08 · Mechanism

your posts → Microsoft models → Copilot, Bing

Profiles + posts

1.1 bn users

without explicit consent

Microsoft AI

Copilot · Bing · GenAI

opt-out · Settings → Data Privacy → buried

05 / 08 · Scale

1.1 BN PROFILES. TRAINING RAN.

Sep 2024 change one week Nov 2024 fine

1.1 bn

users

one week

before detection

3 menus

to opt-out

06 / 08 · Discovery

SEPTEMBER 2024

404 Media

Joseph Cox

TechCrunch · Verge

confirmation

DPC Ireland

investigation

"it was for one week" — LinkedIn. "that was enough" — DPC

07 / 08 · Penalty

€310 M

DPC Ireland · November 2024

Record in the "dark patterns AI training" category. LinkedIn switches: now opt-in. But a week of data is already in the models.

08 / 08

LINKEDIN AI

Trained on you before you knew. One week was enough. DPC Ireland: €310 M.
Case C05 in Big Tech Files.