X halts using personal data of Europeans to train AI [Video]

Social platform X said Friday it would work European regulators after agreeing to suspended its heavily criticised use of European users’ personal data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.

After Elon Musk’s social platform began using personal data in public posts made by European users Ireland’s data protection commission (DPC) launched a court case arguing that violated users’ data privacy rights.

As X has its European headquarters in Ireland, the country’s data protection commission is the lead regulator in Europe for the social platform.

“We will continue to work with the DPC about Grok and other AI matters as we have been doing since last year,” X said in a post.

That came after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said Thursday the social platform had agreed to suspend use of personal data contained in the public posts of X’s users in Europe to train Grok.

The DPC said X had …