DUBLIN: Ireland’s data regulator on Friday said it had opened an investigation into social media platform X over the use of personal data collected from EU users to train its AI system, Grok.
Ireland’s data protection commission (DPC) is the lead EU regulator for X due to the location of its EU operations in the country. It has the power to impose fines of up to 4% of a company’s global revenue under the EU’s strict general data protection regulation (GDPR).
The inquiry will look at “the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the X social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models,” the DPC said in a statement.