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    Regulators pressure Musk’s X over default AI data harvesting

    Social media platform violates UK and EU GDPR rules with pre-ticked consent boxes.
    News DeskBy News DeskJuly 27, 2024
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    United States: Data regulators are putting pressure on Elon Musk’s X platform after it was discovered that users are giving their authorisation for their postings to be utilised as a basis for artificial intelligence systems through an app default option.

    The data watchdogs in the UK and Ireland have stated that they have been in contact with X regarding the apparent attempt to obtain user consent for data harvesting without the users’ knowledge.

    An X user brought attention to the problem on Friday, pointing to an app setting that was activated by default and allowed posts made by the account holder to be used as training material for Grok, an AI chatbot developed by Musk’s xAI company.

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    Based on the EU data law of the same name, the UK GDPR prohibits organizations from using “pre-ticked boxes” or “any other method of default consent.”

    You “allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning,” according to the setting, which has a checkbox already checked. The X user claims that the setting is only deactivable on the web version of X.

    Data regulators voiced their concerns about the default setting right away. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom announced that it was “making enquiries” with X.

    The primary regulator for X throughout the European Union, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in the Republic of Ireland, stated that it has already spoken with Musk’s business this week on data collecting and AI models and that it was “surprised” to learn of the default setting.

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