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DUBLIN: Social media platform X agreed on Thursday not to use personal data collected from EU users to train its artificial intelligence systems for the time being unless they have the right to withdraw consent, an Irish court heard on Thursday.
This week, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the lead EU regulator for most of the top US internet companies, as their EU operations are based in Ireland) sought an order to suspend or restrict X’s processing of user data for the purpose of developing, training or improving its artificial intelligence systems.
Elon Musk’s X said it would allow all users to decide whether their public posts should be available to the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok. To do this, users must uncheck a box in the privacy settings to opt out.
However, Judge Leonie Reynolds said it was clear that X had started processing EU users’ data to train its AI system on May 7 and only offered an opt-out option from July 16. She said the feature was also not initially rolled out to all users.
A lawyer for the platform, formerly known as Twitter, said data collected from EU users between May 7 and August 1 will not be used until proceedings ordered by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) are decided by the courts.
The court heard that X’s lawyers will challenge the suspension order by September 4.
The order sought by the regulator is “baseless, excessive, and unjustifiably singled out for X,” the X Global Government Affairs account said in a post on the social media platform on Wednesday.
The regulator’s concerns about how X uses data come after the Irish DPC asked Meta Platforms to delay its plans in June, when it decided not to launch its Meta AI model in Europe for now.
Earlier this year, Alphabet’s Google also agreed to delay and modify its Gemini AI chatbot after consultations with Irish regulators.
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