Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk’s X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform’s Grok AI chatbot.
The DPC confirmed today it is launching the probe under section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Officials said the inquiry will focus on Grok AI and the nude or nearly nude images users prompted it to create from photographs of people, which could be viewed by others on the platform.
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