Elon Musk's X agrees to refrain from using some EU users' data to train its AI chatbot
Elon Musk-owned X has said it allows all users to decide if their public posts can be used by the platform's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok.
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Elon Musk-owned X has said it allows all users to decide if their public posts can be used by the platform's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok.
Social media platform X has agreed, for now, not to train its AI systems using the personal data collected from users in the EU before they had the option to withdraw their consent, the High Court heard yesterday.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the lead EU regulator for most of the top US internet firms as Ireland is the location of their EU operations.
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