LONDON (AP) – Ireland’s Data Privacy Watchdog said Friday it was investigating Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
The Data Protection Commission said it has launched an investigation into the “processing of personal data consisting of publicly accessible posts” posted by European users on X.
“The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether this personal data has been legally processed to train GROK LLM,” the committee said in a statement posted online, pursuant to Bloc’s Data Privacy Act.
LLM, or large language models, is a vast pool of texts containing articles, blog posts, essays and other materials that have been scrapped from online sources used to teach the algorithms that underpin the generator AI system.
Under the strict EU data privacy laws known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Ireland’s Watchdog will act as the lead regulator for X as its European headquarters is based in Dublin.
Watchdog has the authority to impose a penalty of up to 20 million euros or 4% of the annual total revenue for serious violations.
X did not respond to email requests for comments.
Original issue: April 11, 2025, 3:59pm EDT
