2025-04-11 17:32
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2025-04-11 17:32
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated an investigation into the use of the personal data of users from the EU to train the artificial intelligence model (AI) on Elon Musk's platform X – announced on Friday in a message.
The investigation will concern “the processing of personal data contained in publicly available entries published on the Social Platform X by users from the EU and the European Economic Area in order to train models of generative artificial intelligence,” said.
In particular, it is a GROK model, used in a hutbbor functioning on platform X. The commission wants to check whether the company complies with the GDPR entries, among others on the transparency of data processing.
Activities against the platform belonging to the close associate of the President of the United States Donald Trump may intensify the tension between the EU and the USA regarding European regulations regarding technology companies – said Politico.
Grok was already the subject of a court dispute in Ireland last year, and company X agreed to stop using the EU user data to train this model, collected before they had the opportunity to decide whether they agree.
In Ireland there is the main representative office of Muska in the EU. Pursuant to the EU 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. (PAP)
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