OK, I will admit I embellished the question that was posed to me–they never said “little.”
Backstory: you worked so hard to be the expert you are. Now LinkedIn wants to offer AI your knowledge and use your output for its own content.
On LinkedIn, you now have a new, and to me, a welcome, control. It’s a way to keep LinkedIn from springboarding off your own intellectual property by not providing it to LinkedIn’s content pool and never recognizing you as the source, to a hungry, global AI-smitten audience.
Do you think it curious that I would say it’s a “welcome” control, when I have always advocated that you want to have a huge global audience with your amazing-er-ness?
My reasoning is that someone reading your brilliant post or comment may just want to learn more about you, read your profile, contact you, fall in “like” with you, and hire you, to fall in perpetual love with your mind and spirit an engage you as a business partner.
Would LinkedIn’s AI gnomes do that? Nope. Never. Nuh-uh.
“Welcome” again to me because Microsoft owns LinkedIn and the parent is pitted against the biggest tech rivals in the world to carve out a profitable niche in the AI universe. Yet isn’t it curious that they allow us to deny them chomping on our natural human intelligence and feeding it to its AI elves?
So I encourage you–no, I urge you–nah, I implore you–to click the URL below and take 2 seconds to go to the LinkedIn profile setting that will give you the option to click say “no” to LinkedIn using your data for training content creation in AI models:
https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement
Preserve your intellectual uniqueness and deny AI the chance to ingest your hard-earned observations and never give you credit, nor look back to see what they ate (you) for lunch.
Please do not procrastinate. It will take you seconds. Who knows what AI has already sampled on, from their all-you-can-eat menu of excellence, with your genius as the main course?