The Box Ticked While You Read This: LinkedIn, AI Training, and the Switch You Did Not Flip

Not in the Brief, Episode 04 You are, in all likelihood, reading this on LinkedIn. Somewhere in your account settings sits a switch labelled "Data for Generative AI Improvement". For most members it is on. Almost none of them turned it on. This is the fourth episode of Not in the Brief, a series about the things software does that were never in the brief: the features that arrive switched on, the clauses that appear in an update, the defaults that assume your consent because you did not object to a notice you never saw. The aim is not outrage.