The Ireland Data Protection Control Agency, which acted on behalf of the European Union, launched an investigation on Friday, April 11 on the use of personal data of Elon Musk’s X platform to train its Chatbot AI, Grok.
The probe is related to the “Personal Data Processing included in accessible public publications published in the” Social Network Platform “of” X “by EU users, said the Data Protection Commission (DPC).” The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether these personal data were legal processed to train the Grok LLM (large language models), “said the DPC statement.
Grok is the name of a group of LLM, or generative models of artificial intelligence, developed by Musk, which can be accessed on its social media platform X.
Last year, after X, using personal data in public publications made by European users, the Ireland DPC launched a judicial case arguing that this violated user data privacy rights. As X has its European headquarters in Ireland, the country’s data protection commission is the main regulator in Europe for the social platform.
Last August, X said it would work with the DPC after accepting to suspend the use of the data, which led to the DPC to leave its case. The Social Network Platform has continued to develop new AI models since then.
The Irish authority said on Friday that “it would comply with a variety of key provisions” of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including if the data has been processed with “legality and transparency.”
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