X Confronts EU Legal Action Over Alleged AI Privacy Missteps

X, the artificial intelligence technology company of Elon Musk, has reportedly been accused of unlawfully feeding personal information about its users to its artificial intelligence technology without their consent according to a privacy campaign group based in Vienna.

This complaint has been filed by a group of individuals known as Noyb.

In early September, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) filed a lawsuit against X over its data collection practices to train its artificial intelligence systems.

A series of privacy complaints against X, the company formerly known as Twitter, have been filed after it was revealed the platform was using data obtained from European users to train an artificial intelligence chatbot for its Grok AI product without their consent. 

In the past couple of weeks, a social media user discovered that X had begun quietly processing the posts of regional users for AI training purposes late last month.

In response to the revelation, TechCrunch reported that the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), responsible for ensuring that X complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), expressed “surprise” at the revelation.

As Musk’s company, X has recently announced, all its users can choose whether Grok can access their public posts, the website’s artificial intelligence chatbot that is operated by Musk’s company X. 

If a user wishes to opt out of r

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