Musk's AI chatbot Grok under scrutiny in EU

Musk's AI chatbot Grok under scrutiny in EU

LONDON — Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland's data privacy regulator said Tuesday.

Ireland opens investigation into X’s Grok images

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened an inquiry into social media platform X on Tuesday following reports that its AI chatbot has produced sexual deepfake images. The DPC investigation concerns the apparent creation and dissemination “of potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualised images” on X created using integrated AI chatbot “Grok,” developed by owner Elon Musk’s xAI. Many “deepfake” images have reportedly con…

The EU opened a large-scale investigation into social network X

The European Union (EU) opened an investigation with X regarding sexual images created by this social network’s AI chatbot Grok. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the agency primarily responsible for enforcing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), on February 17 announced the opening of a “large-scale” investigation into last month. The DPC will […]

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Ireland opens its own investigation into Musk’s X over sexualized images of children made by Grok

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission opened an investigation Tuesday into Elon Musk‘s X and its artificial intelligence tool Grok for producing sexualized images, including images of children. The inquiry, announced by Ireland’s privacy watchdog under section 110 of the Data Protection Act of 2018, targets X Internet Unlimited Company, the Dublin-based entity that manages X’s operations in the European Union. Read more here: Ireland opens its ow…