Ireland’s data regulator probes X use of posts to train AI

IRELAND – Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has begun an inquiry into how X processed personal data comprised in posts by EU and EEA users for the purposes of training generative AI.

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The probe will focus on whether data processing from publicly accessible users’ posts on the platform to train generative AI – including the Grok large language models (LLMs) – was lawfully processed.

The DPC will examine compliance with a range of key provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including regarding the lawfulness and transparency of the processing.

Grok is a group of AI models developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, which help to inform a chatbot on the X platform (formerly Twitter).

Ireland’s DPC can impose fines of up to 4% of a company’s global revenue under GDPR.

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