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.

LinkedIn Corp. shared millions of Premium customers’ personal messages with third parties without consent to train artificial intelligence models, a proposed class action said.

LinkedIn, a professional networking platform, seems to be in hot water over a lawsuit by its own premium subscribers.

The lawsuit was filed in San Jose, California, on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users whose private InMail messages were shared with third parties for AI training before September 18, a report by Reuters reveals.

The suit alleges LinkedIn quietly introduced a privacy setting that let users enable or disable the sharing of their personal data.

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.

Microsofts LinkedIn is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit, accused of sharing private messages from Premium users without permission to train generative AI models. The complaint, filed in federal court in San Jose,