Ireland’s data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train Grok
The data regulator of Ireland, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said on Friday that it has opened a study of Elon Musk’s X about the use of personal data by the social media collected from European users to train grok.
The DPC will investigate how x personal data processes “existing” in publicly accessible messages from European users for training generative AI models, According to a Reuters report. In the past, the powerful Irish privacy ruler has issued fines to Microsoft, Tiktok and Meta. The fines of the meta total almost € 3 billion (around $ 3.38 billion).
X Koos quietly in users for sharing data with Xai, Musk’s AI Company, to train his AI Chatbot Grok in 2024. Last month, Musk announced that Xai X had taken over.
The data regulator of Ireland can impose fines of a maximum of 4% of the worldwide income of a company according to the AVG rules of the EU, which require companies to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data. The last investigation of the agency comes after it has been a judicial order last year to limit X to process European user data for AI training.
