X will be It trains an AI chatbot Grok On public sharing by users in the European Union and the European Economic Area, following pressure from a regulator in the region. Last month the company Practice after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). X has now made this commitment permanent, prompting DPC to cease its legal activities.
The DPC, the lead EU regulator for X, has raised concerns that X may have breached data protection rules and users’ rights. Since May, X has offered users the fact that their public posts are being used to train Grok indicates that the company has enabled this setting for public accounts by default. Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies typically must obtain express consent from users before processing their data. X does not have a media relations department that can be contacted for comment.
Meanwhile, the DPC called on the European Data Protection Board to consider “some of the key issues that arise in the context of processing for the purpose of developing and training an artificial intelligence model, including how personal data is processed for these purposes.” DPC Commissioner Dale Sunderland said: “The DPC hopes that the feedback will enable more proactive, effective and consistent regulation of this area across Europe.” . “It will also support the handling of a number of complaints made/referred to the DPC regarding such practices.”
