Ireland’s Data Regulator, Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Friday that Grock had launched an investigation into Elon Mask X to train Grock using personal data collected from European users.
The DPC will investigate how X generator AI models processed “integrated” in public data on publicly accessible posts by European users for training, According to a Reuters ReportThe The powerful Irish privacy regulator has issued a fine of Microsoft, Tikatok and Meta in the past. Its fine is a total of 3 billion euros (about 38 3.38 billion)
The X quietly used users to share data with Jai for training its AI Chatbot Grock in 2024.
Ireland’s Data Regulator EU may impose up to 4% of the global revenue under the GDPR rules, for which companies have a valid legal foundation for data processing. The latest investigation of the agency came from the European user’s data processing to restrict X for AI training last year.