AwarenessPlatforms & social life
AI training on your posts
Your posts, photos and messages used to train the platform’s AI.
Understand it
Social networks and some messaging and productivity apps now use what you post - text, photos, sometimes private content - to train their AI models. The opt-out, where there is one, is usually buried, varies by country, and often arrives after the data has already been scraped.
How to spot it
Look in each platform’s privacy or “data for AI” settings - the control, if any, is there.
Close the gap
- Find and use the “don’t use my data for AI” setting on each platform.
- Set accounts private, which limits what can be scraped in the first place.
- Don’t post sensitive text or images you wouldn’t want in a training set.
- Prefer apps that don’t train on your content - it’s a real differentiator.
What to do about it
This is the profiling that powers your feeds. You can't turn it off entirely, but trimming what you share - and the platform steps in your plan - limit what it has to work with.