When the latest terms of service of the social media platform X under Musk's ownership, which will take effect on November 15, were announced, users quickly noticed a change.

"By submitting, posting, or displaying content on or through the services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, distribute, and publish the content you provide," the terms of service state, including the right to analyze any content, "for example, using and training with our machine learning and AI models, whether generated or otherwise."

Essentially, by continuing to use the platform, users will agree that X can use their data to train its AI models.

With the flourishing development of technology, using content to train AI has become a major issue. On X, artists and others engaged in creative work are concerned that their work may be used to train computers that could potentially replace human creators one day, not just on X. Other X users express concerns that their personal information in tweets could be used in this way. Some users say they have begun to delete their photos from their feeds.

If users have any questions about these terms, they may find themselves in a federal court favored by conservative activists, which has presided over two lawsuits involving X under Musk. According to the latest updates, all disputes related to these terms will be submitted to either the Northern District of Texas Federal Court or the state court in Tarrant County, Texas.

According to the latest updates, all disputes related to these terms will be submitted to either the Northern District of Texas Federal Court or the state court in Tarrant County, Texas.

X's terms state that any user who continues to use its products or services on or after November 15 will agree to the updated terms.

Changes in data privacy.

X's AI chatbot Grok has been involved in controversy from spreading false information about the 2024 elections to generating violent and vivid fake images of famous politicians. Many companies, from Google to Microsoft, have been criticized for their sometimes bizarre, completely off-base AI tools.

Prior to the recent service terms update, X users could choose not to share data by going to 'Settings,' then 'Privacy and Security.' Under the 'Data Sharing and Personalization' heading, there was a 'Grok' tab where users could uncheck the box allowing the platform to use their data for AI training.

However, it is currently unclear whether X's new terms of service will strip away this choice. X can now authorize all content on the platform, including using it in their machine learning and AI models.

For social media platforms, such widespread and almost unrestricted permissions are not uncommon, but the CEO and founder of Otherweb (an AI-based news reading platform specialized in misinformation), Alex Fink, stated that what sets X apart is its new terms that 'eliminate any ambiguity,' while other platforms do not clearly state their intentions.

Previously, X had stated that it would not use posts from private accounts to train Grok. However, the language in the new terms of service does not differentiate between different types of accounts.