X (formerly Twitter) was documented by hallofshame.design over a setting governing the use of user content to train its AI, Grok. The article describes how X introduced a new setting allowing it to use posted content for this purpose, but, rather than informing users or asking for their explicit consent, set the option to “yes” for everyone without notice. The article characterises this as a textbook example of the dark pattern known as “preselection”.
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X recently introduced a new setting that allows them to use the content you posts to train their AI, Grok. However, instead of informing users or asking for their explicit consent, X set this setting to “yes” for everyone without any notice. This is a textbook example of the dark pattern known as “preselection”.