The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated an investigation into the use of users' personal data from the European Union to train the artificial intelligence model (AI) on the X Platform controlled by Elon Musk – announced on Friday in a message.
The investigation will concern “the processing of personal data contained in publicly available entries published on the X social platform by users from the EU and the European Economic Area in order to train models of generative artificial intelligence” – explained.
In particular, it is a GROK model, used in a hutbbor functioning on the X. platform.
The Commission wants to check whether the company complies with the provisions of the GDPR, among others on the transparency of data processing.
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In the background of US-EU tension
Activities against the platform belonging to a close collaborator President of the United States Donald Trump They can intensify the voltages between the EU and USA on European regulations regarding technology companies – assessed the Politico portal.
Grok was the subject of a court dispute in last year in Irelandand the company X agreed to stop using this model of EU user data to train this model, collected before they had the opportunity to decide whether they agree.
Why Ireland?
In Ireland there is the main EU representation of the company controlled by Musk. Pursuant to the general Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Commission may punish a fine of up to 4 percent. its global turnover – emphasized the Reuters agency.
Since its creation in 2018, DPC has already imposed financial penalties, among others on Microsoft, LinkedIn, Tiktoka and the finish. This last company was imposed on fines in total at almost EUR 3 billion. Platform X, then under the name Twitter, was recently punished in 2020 with a fine of 450,000. euro.
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