Elon Musk’s X may face ‘problem’ in Europe for training Grok AI chatbot

Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), is under investigation by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). The privacy watchdog is probing the micro-blogging site for its use of publicly accessible posts of European users to train its artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok. The DPC is examining whether this data processing complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), focusing on the lawfulness and transparency of the practice. As X’s European headquarters are located in Dublin, the Irish regulator serves as its lead authority within the EU and has the power to impose fines of up to 4% of a company’s global revenue for significant violations.