As expected, at the end of July, The Irish Data Protection (DPC) filed a complaint against X for the violation of the Rules of procedure of the General Data Protection (GDPR). The company kaliforniane is turn on a setting that allows her to use the user data for the training of the next-to Grok. Instead of that, five secretaries of state have asked Elon Musk to block the spread of the news of the fake elections in the United States.
Grok does not apply to information without the consent
Grok is a wizard that have been developed by the xAI and is available in X, for customers of the Premium and Premium+. However, the training of the model for the next generation of artificial intelligence and to improve the quality of one of the current is performed with the data of all the users registered on the social network.
The company kaliforniane aktivizoi the appropriate option and without notice, to More > Settings and privacy > Privacy and safety > Grok. The description explains the purpose:
To continually improve the experience, and we could use your posts to X, the result, the information you post and the interactions of the users with Grok, for the purposes of training and optimisation. This also means that we may share your interactions, the information you enter, and the results with the provider of the service, xAI.
The committee of the Irish Data Protection (DPC) was expressed already in the concerns of his own, and now he has decided to lead the X in a court of law. According to the GDPR, using the data, it can be done only with the express consent of the user. The authority had sought the inhibition of the processing of the data, or a delay in the launch of the new to Grok, but the X was answered negatively.
DPC asked the judge issued an injunction to stop the X-out of the use of the data for training models THAT. A breach of the GDPR brings in a fine of up to 4% of the annual revenue of the global.
Grok respond to questions seeking more information on the social network, without distinguishing the news the real ones false. The five secretaries of state have asked for Musk's to implement the changes in order to prevent that the chatbot to provide false information with respect to the suitability of Kamala Harris. Musk has communicated his support for Trump, so that the letter will end up in the basket of the waste.
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