Eireβs information regulator, the Knowledge Safety Fee (DPC), mentioned Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Muskβs X over the social media platformβs use of non-public information collected from European customers to coach Grok.
The DPC will examine how X processes private information βcomprisedβ in publicly accessible posts by European customers for the needs of coaching generative AI fashions, in response to a Reuters report. The highly effective Irish privateness regulator has issued fines to Microsoft, TikTok, and Meta prior to now. Its fines to Meta whole virtually β¬3 billion (roughly $3.38 billion).
X quietly opted in customers to sharing information with xAI, Muskβs AI firm, to coach its AI chatbot Grok, in 2024. Final month, Musk introduced that xAI had acquired X.Β
Eireβs information regulator can impose fines of as much as 4% of an organizationβs international income underneath the EUβs GDPR guidelines, which require that corporations have a sound authorized foundation for processing individualsβs information.Β The companyβs newest inquiry comes after it sought a court docket order final yr to limit X from processing European person information for AI coaching.