DPC investigating Elon Musk’s X over use of EU personal data to train Grok AI
The Data Protection Commission on Friday said it had opened an investigation into social media platform X over the use of personal data collected from European Union users to train its AI system Grok.
The DPC is the lead EU regulator for X due to the location of its EU headquarters in Dublin. It has the power to impose fines of up to 4pc of a company’s global revenue under the EU’s strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The inquiry will look at “the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the X social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models,” the DPC said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump and other members of his administration have criticised EU regulation of US companies and described fines imposed on US tech companies by the EU as a form of taxation.
X owner Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a top adviser to Trump, has also railed against EU…
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