LinkedIn is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations of using private messages to train its AI model.

Microsoft's LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models.

A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. It alleges that in August last year,

The lawsuit was filed in San Jose, California, and accuses LinkedIn of secretly updating its privacy policy to allow the use of user data, including personal messages, to train AI models

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is under legal scrutiny after a group of its Premium users filed a lawsuit, accusing the platform of sharing private user data to train generative AI models without explicit consent.

A lawsuit against Microsoft's LinkedIn alleges the company shared user data (like DMs) for AI training without authorization.

LinkedIn is facing a lawsuit in the US which accuses the platform of sharing users’ private messages with third parties to train AI models. The legal action alleges that the professional networking platform “quietly” introduced a privacy setting in August which automatically opted users into a programme which gave other companies access to their data to train AI.