LinkedIn is training AI on you — unless you opt out with this setting

You might have used LinkedIn to hunt for a new job, or keep in touch with colleagues from the early days of your career. But LinkedIn has been using you, too. Last week, the professional network added a new data privacy setting that caught many by surprise.

By default, it granted itself permission to use information shared on the service to train its artificial intelligence. Unless you toggle this new setting to off, LinkedIn considers everything fair game — your posts, articles, even your videos..