Irish DPC investigates X over use of EU personal data to train Grok AI

Irish DPC investigates X over use of EU personal data to train Grok AI

The Grok logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Elon Musk revealed his own artificial intelligence bot, dubbed Grok, claiming the prototype is already superior to ChatGPT 3.5 across several benchmarks. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

Ireland’s data protection watchdog has launched a probe into Elon Musk-owned X over the use of personal data collected from European Union users to train its AI system Grok.

The investigation will focus on how X, formerly Twitter, uses posts from users on the platform to train Grok’s AI language models.

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