X Accused of Unauthorized Data Use for Grok

The sources of the data that technology giants use to train their artificial intelligence have been frequently discussed recently. Now Elon Musk’s social media platform Grok In order to train the artificial intelligence named Data of users in Europe It was claimed that he used it without permission. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) sued X in the High Court over concerns about how European users’ public posts on X were being used to train the company’s AI tools.

X in July for all users an automatic setting presented. With this setting, users could decide whether to notify the website to use public posts on the platform to further train the AI ​​chatbot. on the other hand your default setting Users who opened access were not notified.

DPC does not find X’s information sufficient

DPC, feature of X to users deactivate Although he accepts that he offers an alternative for the problem, he states that this measure is not sufficient and users are not sufficiently informed. According to the Commission, X’s failure to provide this opt-out feature on time and its use of data without permission are also against EU regulations.

The DPC is asking the court to suspend or completely ban X from using its own users’ data to train AI. If the court finds the DPC justified, up to 4 percent of annual turnover A fine may be imposed.