• by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, January 31, 2025

A LinkedIn user has withdrawn her class-action complaint accusing the company of using private messages to train generative artificial intelligence models.

The suit, filed earlier this month in federal court in California by Alessandro De La Torre, claimed that LinkedIn violated its privacy promises to paid members by harnessing their messages for training purposes.

LinkedIn consistently said the allegations were false. Sarah Wright, a vice president at the company, announced the suit's withdrawal Thursday in a post to the platform.

“Sharing the good news that a baseless lawsuit against LinkedIn was withdrawn earlier today,” she wrote, adding that the company never shared private members' messages with third parties for artificial-intelligence training.

Eli Wade-Scott, an attorney with the plaintiff's law firm, Edelson, said LinkedIn's “belated disclosures left consumers rightly concerned and confused about what was being used to train AI.”

“As companies run to train AI models, they’re often feeding user data first and asking questions later," he said. “Users can take comfort, at least, that LinkedIn has shown us evidence that it did not use their private messages to do that.”