How to Turn Off LinkedIn AI Data Sharing (Step-by-Step Privacy Guide)

LinkedIn recently introduced new settings allowing users to decide whether their data is used to train AI. If you want more control over your privacy, this guide will show you exactly how to turn off LinkedIn AI data sharing and protect your professional content.

📌 Why You Should Turn Off LinkedIn AI Data Sharing?

• By default, LinkedIn has enabled a setting called “Data for Generative AI Improvement” — meaning your profile and content can be used to train AI tools.
• Turning off LinkedIn AI data sharing ensures your personal content isn’t fed into AI models without your consent.
• This includes posts, articles, comments, skills, and public information on your profile.

🛠 How to Turn Off LinkedIn AI Data Sharing on Desktop

1. Log into LinkedIn on your desktop.
2. Click the “Me” icon in the top menu → “Settings & Privacy”.
3. Select “Data privacy” from the left-hand menu.
4. Click “Data for Generative AI Improvement”.
5. Toggle “Use my data for training content-creation AI models” to Off.

📱 How to Turn Off LinkedIn AI Data Sharing on Mobile

1. Open the LinkedIn app and sign in.
2. Tap your profile photo (top-left corner).
3. Tap “Settings”.
4. Tap “Data privacy”.
5. Tap “Data for Generative AI Improvement”.
6. Toggle “Use my data for training content-creation AI models” to Off.

🔍 Additional Steps for Data Privacy

• Delete or edit old posts you don’t want used in AI training.
• Use LinkedIn’s “Data Processing Objection Form” if you want to formally object to any future AI data use.
• Check your full privacy settings for visibility of public information, ads, and activity tracking.

🧠 What Happens If You Keep AI Data Sharing On?

Leaving the AI data sharing option on allows LinkedIn to use your professional content to improve its generative AI models, which power features like “AI post rewrite” and smarter job recommendations. While it may enhance your LinkedIn experience, it also means your professional data contributes to AI systems owned by Microsoft.

✅ Final Thoughts: Why Turning Off LinkedIn AI Data Sharing Matters?

If you’re concerned about privacy and transparency, now is the time to turn off LinkedIn AI data sharing. It takes less than a minute to protect your profile and prevent your professional content from being used to train AI models.

Stay informed. Stay in control. Protect your digital identity.