Elon Musk's X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans' data
Earlier this week, the EU's lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot
Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot, but the saga isn’t over yet for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s received — and will “examine” — a number of complaints that have been filed under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
“The DPC will now examine the extent to which any processing that has taken place complies with the relevant provisions of the GDPR,” the regulator told TechCrunch. “If, further to that examination, it is established that TUIC [Twitter International Unlimited Company, as X’s main Irish subsidiary is still known] has infringed the GDPR, the DPC will then consider whether the exercise of any of its corrective powers is warranted and, if so, which one(s).”
X agreed to suspend data processing for Grok training in early August. The undertaking X made to it was then made permanent earlier this week. That agreement committed X to delete and stop using Europeans users’ data to train its AIs which it had collected between between May 7, 2024 and August 1, 2024, according to a copy TechCrunch obtained. But it’s now clear there is no requirement on X to delete any AI models trained on the data.