Irish watchdog opens EU data probe into Grok sexual AI imagery
The Hindu
Regulation of US tech giants, including X, has been at the heart of growing tensions between the EU and Washington since Donald Trump's return to power.
Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU, launched a probe Tuesday into Elon Musk's X over AI chatbot Grok's generation of sexualised deepfake images, the latest step of an international backlash against the tool.
The "large-scale inquiry" relates to potential breaches of the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), said a statement by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC).
It will examine "the alleged creation and publication on X of potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate or sexualised images involving Europeans, including children," generated using the tool, said the DPC.
"The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether X complied with its obligations under the GDPR ... with regard to the personal data processed of EU/EEA data subjects," it said.
As X's European operations has its headquarters in Ireland, the DPC is the lead regulator in Europe for applying EU rules on the platform.
DPC deputy commissioner Graham Doyle said the authority has "been engaging" with X "since media reports first emerged a number of weeks ago concerning the alleged ability of X users to prompt the Grok account on X to generate sexualised images of real people, including children".
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