the hell are they going to train it on? jerking itself off? cause that’s all it’s going to “learn” if it trains on Linkedin profiles and posts.
It’s just going to slurp up a bunch of tech bros posts that think AI is the second coming. it’s just going to learn that it thinks it’s hot shit when it’s not.
Idiots creating a narcissism machine is pretty peak rn
I have one but I never post anything. On those rare occasions I log in, all the corporate bootlicking makes me want to immediately log off.
It is useful for learning which of your coworkers are pathological ass-kissers, though. Seems like the fewer in-demand skills they have, the more they post “motivational” BS on LinkedIn…
Assuming you need to keep your account for work, here are the direct links:
- Go to this page and turn it off: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement
- Submit this form: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DPRO
In addition:
- check this page for other privacy settings: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
- Delete unnecessary personal information:
Profile image>Manage>Posts and ActivityProfile image>View Profile> remove anything you don’t need to include- Go to this page and delete old resumes: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/application-settings/
Thanks for this. A lot of people here are saying just delete it, but I’m the professional world it is quite literally where you may get you job. The vast majority of mine have been because of LinkedIn.
But… why?
The whole point is that the profiles are real people to network with professionally. The second people know that a profile might be a corporate bot, I feel like the site is done.
Besides, just have a python script that generates generic guy names and picks 10 random IT/ business skills, plus a 30% chance to add “synergy”, “go getter”, or “team-oriented”, and you’ll have recreated the same effect as your LLM, and saved yourself 40 million.
The AI tool that I saw on there was to give users advice on “how to make your profile better”. The tips were generic garbage, so maybe after they train the AI on member profiles, the tips can be even more generic garbage.
For when you really want to blend into the crowd and not be bothered by possible employers or recruiters. Fuck yeah, I might do that then.
The true hack to get noticed by recruiters is to just not update your profile for years at a time. Not sure why they keep contacting me, there hasn’t been anything new on my profile for years. Hell, Im not sure I’m old enough to drink in the profile picture.
No, the point of the entire site is to generate revenue. They’ve been pushing subscription based AI to “help” with profile writing for a while. GenAI content is also supposed to be good for juicing engagement numbers to show to advertisers.
I agree with you that it probably won’t work and the whole thing will degenerate into shrimp Jesus and bots replying to bots, but that’s the line of thinking. They don’t give a fuck about the quality of the service.
Same techbro hegemony as Meta’s “Facebook AI Friends” they are trying to roll out.
Is “synergy” back in fashion now? It seemed to go away for at least a decade.
First off, you’re forgetting the baseline for critical thinking in the states these days. The site is essentially too big to fail. We’re stuck with it awhile.
As someone who basically doesn’t use linkedin anymore, and also doesn’t particularly care if they train a terrible AI model on my information, can someone explain to me why should I bother to turn off this setting (I have not logged into linkedin in months)?
You can disable this in Settings -> Data privacy -> Data for generative AI improvement.
Or Settings & privacy -> Account preferences -> close account -> follow the instructions.
i had my linkedin profile suspended in case i ever needed it for something. now i had it closed instead, though not before deleting any worthwhile information on it, not that i believe they will actually delete my information despite whatever they claim.
It’s probably too late. Does anyone these days really believe that these companies actually delete anything?
