Elon Musk’s X will suspend using personal data to train Grok AI tool in EU
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- Social network X, owned by Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, will suspend using personal data to train the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the European Union, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced on Thursday.
- The DPC said in a statement that it welcomed X’s agreement to suspend collecting data. The DPC had previously started court hearings in an effort to obtain an injunction against X after it was found that Grok was being trained with X posts without user consent.
- Late last month, X enabled a setting without telling its users that it would train the Grok chatbot, which competes with others like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, based on their posts.
- Musk said last month that another of his companies, xAI, had started training its large language model using “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Other companies use publicly available data to train their large language models, including Meta Platforms (META). OpenAI and Microsoft (MSFT) have been sued by The New York Times and several authors over copyright infringement.
- Musk previously said he would take the idea of Tesla investing $5B into xAI to the former’s board of directors after respondents to a poll overwhelmingly voted in favor of such a decision.