The sources of the data that tech giants use to train their artificial intelligence have been much discussed in recent times. Now that Elon Musk’s social media platform Grok To train the said artificial intelligence Data from users in Europe It was alleged that he used it without consent. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) took X to the High Court over concerns about how European users’ public posts on X were being used to train the company’s AI tools.

X in July for all users an automatic setting presented. This setting allowed users to decide whether they wanted to notify the website to use public posts on the platform to further train the AI ​​chatbot. on the other hand your default setting Users who have opened access have not been notified.

DPC finds X’s information insufficient

DPC, feature of X for users deactivate While he accepts that he offers an alternative to the problem, he argues that this measure is not sufficient and does not provide users with sufficient information. According to the Commission, X’s failure to provide this opt-out function in time and the unauthorised use of data are also in breach of EU law.

The DPC asks the court to suspend or completely prohibit X from using its own users’ data to train AI. If the court finds the DPC justified, up to 4 percent of annual turnover A fine may be imposed.