Here’s how to stop Grok’s AI models using your tweets for training

There’s that just enabled a setting that lets it train on public tweets, as well as any interactions they have with the chatbot. That’s not entirely true: a help page instructing users how to opt-out of X using their data to train Grok has been live since at least May. X just never exactly made it crystal clear that it was opting everyone into this, which is a sketchy move. If you don’t want a to use your bad tweets for training, it’s thankfully easy to switch that off.

You just need to uncheck a box from the . If that link doesn’t work, you can go to Settings > Privacy and Safety > Grok. According to some users, the setting isn’t accessible through X’s mobile apps, so you’ll have to uncheck the box on the web instead. It’s also worth noting that Grok isn’t trained on any tweets from private X accounts.

One of X’s selling points for Grok when it was that it had the advantage of using real-time information that’s published on the platform — in other words, users’ tweets. That only works if users opt-in or are automatically enrolled into sharing their data with the chatbot. But X isn’t exactly the pinnacle of truth and accuracy. It’s full of pranksters, and lifting their jokes might be one of the reasons why . In any case, it’s not exactly uncommon for AI models to be trained on material .