LinkedIn: Training AI on your content

Data, AI, consent. We’ve hit a point where more and more companies use your content to enrich themselves, often without asking first.

This time it’s LinkedIn, one of the largest job-search platforms. Starting November 3, 2025, LinkedIn will use profile details, posts, and feed activity to train its AI models (including models that support personalized ads).

And if you’re reading this here, you can guess why: instead of asking clearly and letting you choose, LinkedIn flipped the switch for you. The toggle for “Use my data for training content creation AI models” is on by default, a classic Preselection dark pattern.

How to opt out

1. Open Settings & Privacy in LinkedIn.
2. Go to the Data privacy section.
3. Open Data for Generative AI Improvement
4. Turn off the option to use your data to train generative AI models.

Unchecking that setting opts you out of LinkedIn and its affiliates using your personal data and the content you create on LinkedIn to train their generative AI models.

LinkedIn made “use my data to train AI” the default. That’s not consent. If a platform wants your data, it should ask clearly, in the moment, with the switch off by default. This isn’t a one-off mistake; it’s the same old playbook: make data sharing opt-out, hide it deep, count on people not noticing. LinkedIn’s just the latest to try it.