Data Protection Commission ‘surprised’ over X move on user data

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has expressed “surprise” over social media company X’s decision to use user posts to train an AI chatbot.

Users of X, formerly Twitter, expressed outrage after discovering that the company had enabled a system where their posts could be used to train its Grok AI chatbot.

Grok, which is available to X Premium customers, is billed as a humorous enhanced search feature powered by a “state-of-the-art large language model” that was initially trained on publicly available sources.