Source: Yahoo
Social media platform X has suspended the processing of personal data to train its artificial intelligence tools after the company was hit with legal action earlier this week, the Irish Data Protection Authority said in a statement published late yesterday (8 August).
The Irish DPC on Tuesday filed a complaint at the High Court, over Grok, X’s new virtual assistant available to premium and premium+ subscribers, after it expressed concerns about the processing of users’ personal data from public posts of X’s EU users.
US tech giant Meta said last month (18 July) that it will not roll-out multimodal AI models – so-called virtual assistants – in Europe due to regulatory unpredictability.
And TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, in April decided to suspend the roll-out of its reward program TikTok Lite after the European Commission asked questions about the impact on the mental health of users in relation to the potential stimulation of addictive behaviour.
Earlier this week, it announced that it would permanently withdraw the program from the EU market, avoiding possibly a hefty fine under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
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