🤔 LinkedIn is Using Your Data for AI — Here’s How to Opt Out

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1. 🤖 The Ultimate ChatGPT Guide

2. 📲 LinkedIn Faces Scrutiny Over AI Training with User Data

3. 🤝 Amazon's New AI Assistant Helps Sellers Boost Their Business

4. 🤯  Quick Takes

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The Ultimate ChatGPT Guide

The intent of this document is to serve as the ultimate guide to using ChatGPT effectively.

It covers a comprehensive range of topics and techniques to help you maximize the potential of ChatGPT in various applications.

Each section is designed to provide detailed instructions, best practices, and tips for getting the most out of ChatGPT.

Please use this guide as a definitive resource to enhance your understanding and utilization of ChatGPT.

In the Know​

LinkedIn Faces Scrutiny Over AI Training with User Data

LinkedIn recently revealed that it has been using U.S. users’ data to train AI models for content creation without properly updating its privacy policy to reflect this. While the platform offers an opt-out option, many users were unaware of its existence. Here's what you need to know and how to turn off this setting:

Key Points:

• LinkedIn has been using U.S. user data for AI training without a clear update to its privacy policy.

• The opt-out feature was available, but many users didn’t realize they were part of the program.

• This data is being used to train LinkedIn's own models and possibly models from Microsoft, LinkedIn's parent company.

How to Turn Off LinkedIn’s AI Training Setting:

• Open LinkedIn and tap your profile picture.

• Go to Settings > Data Privacy.

• Select Data for Generative AI Improvement.

• Toggle the setting to Off.

While you’ve successfully disabled LinkedIn from using your data for AI training, it's worth staying vigilant as more platforms might introduce similar settings in the future without clear notifications. Privacy advocates argue this opt-out approach falls short, calling for stronger user consent practices, especially as platforms increasingly use user-generated content for AI training.

Amazon's New AI Assistant Helps Sellers Boost Their Business

Amazon has introduced a new AI assistant, code-named Project Amelia, to help sellers optimize their business. Built on Amazon Bedrock, this tool provides sellers with insights into metrics like sales and customer traffic, offering tailored responses to questions such as “How is my business doing?” Initially available to select U.S. sellers, Project Amelia will expand to more users and languages later this year. The assistant is designed to grow in functionality, eventually helping resolve issues and providing personalized guidance, making it a powerful tool for sellers on Amazon’s platform.

Quick Takes

• Fal.ai Raises $23M to Expand AI Media Infrastructure: AI platform Fal.ai, co-founded by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, has raised $23 million across two funding rounds, led by Kindred Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Fal.ai, which offers scalable AI models for generating audio, video, and images, plans to use the funds to enhance its self-serve inference optimization product and expand its research team.

• UN Report Calls for Global AI Governance: In its final report, the UN’s High-level Advisory Body on AI emphasizes that AI regulation cannot be left to market forces alone, urging a global approach to address the technology’s cross-border impact. The panel outlined recommendations, including a framework for AI data transparency and support for developing nations to harness AI’s benefits responsibly.

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