Eire’s privateness regulator launched an investigation on Friday into how social media platform X has used Europeans’ private information to coach its synthetic intelligence mannequin Grok.
The transfer to focus on the platform owned by Elon Musk, tech billionaire and right-hand man to United States President Donald Trump, is more likely to stoke additional tensions between the EU and U.S. over Europe’s tech guidelines and rules.
The probe by Eire’s Information Safety Fee (DPC) seems into how private information “in publicly-accessible posts” on X have been processed to coach Grok, the regulator stated in a press release on Friday.
Musk’s AI startup xAI has been creating a bunch of AI fashions below the title Grok, that are used to energy issues just like the AI chatbot obtainable on the X platform.
Grok’s gobbling of EU information was already the topic of scrutiny from the Irish regulator final 12 months, when X — after a battle within the Irish courts — agreed to droop the usage of EU residents’ information to coach its AI fashions.
The Irish regulator stated on Friday that its new investigation will look at whether or not X has been complying with the EU’s Normal Information Safety Regulation (GDPR), together with whether or not information was processed lawfully and in accordance with transparency guidelines.
X didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.