{"id":11574,"date":"2025-04-11T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11574\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:53:08","slug":"ireland-probes-musks-x-for-feeding-europeans-data-to-its-ai-model-grok-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11574\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland probes Musk\u2019s X for feeding Europeans\u2019 data to its AI model Grok \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musk&#8217;s AI startup xAI has been developing a group of AI models under the name Grok, which are used to power things like the AI chatbot available on the X platform.<\/p>\n<p>Grok&#8217;s gobbling of EU data was already the subject of scrutiny from the Irish regulator last year, when X \u2014 after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataprotection.ie\/en\/news-media\/press-releases\/data-protection-commission-welcomes-conclusion-proceedings-relating-xs-ai-tool-grok#Grok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battle in the Irish courts<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/185347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to suspend<\/a> the use of EU citizens&#8217; data to train its AI models.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish regulator said on Friday that its new investigation will examine whether X has been complying with the EU&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including whether data was processed lawfully and according to transparency rules.<\/p>\n<p>X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s AI startup xAI has been developing a group of AI models under the name Grok, which are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,3721,1942,7960,1394,7961,2814,7962,7963,6511,295,7964,678,7965,6512,2443,182,53,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-11574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-algorithms","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-big-data","12":"tag-big-tech","13":"tag-cross-border","14":"tag-data","15":"tag-data-privacy","16":"tag-data-flows","17":"tag-data-protection","18":"tag-elon-musk","19":"tag-enforcement","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-platforms","22":"tag-privacy","23":"tag-regulation","24":"tag-social-media","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114320847920202339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}