Making your account private on X significantly affects data-sharing with Grok AI. When you set your account to private, your posts are no longer visible to the public, which means they cannot be used to train Grok AI. This provides an additional layer of control over how your data is utilized by the platform. While making your account private does not explicitly opt you out of all data sharing, it ensures that your private posts are not used for training Grok or generating responses to user queries[1][3][7].
However, if you want to fully opt out of data sharing for Grok AI training, you need to manually adjust your privacy settings. You can do this by navigating to the "Privacy & Safety" section, selecting "Data sharing and personalization," and then choosing "Grok" to toggle off the option that allows your data to be used for training and fine-tuning Grok AI[3][5][7]. This step is crucial if you want to ensure that even your interactions and inputs with Grok are not used for its development.
In summary, making your account private is a step towards protecting your data, but you should also manually opt out of data sharing through the privacy settings to fully control how your information is used by Grok AI.
Citations:[1] https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/x-allows-users-to-opt-out-of-data-sharing-for-grok-ai-training-19450294.htm
[2] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/27/elon-musks-x-quietly-changes-default-settings-to-allow-it-to-train-ai-model-grok-with-your
[3] https://blog.internxt.com/grok-ai/
[4] https://grok-ai.app/privacy-policy/
[5] https://guptadeepak.com/grok-ai-and-your-privacy-navigating-the-artificial-intelligence-landscape/
[6] https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy/previous-2024-12-20
[7] https://www.wired.com/story/grok-ai-privacy-opt-out/
[8] https://writesonic.com/blog/grok-3-ai-release
[9] https://help.x.com/en/using-x/about-grok