Elon Musk's X Faces EU Backlash Over Alleged Unauthorized Use Of User Data To Train AI Models, Sparking 9 Privacy Complaints Across Europe
Elon Musk's X Faces EU Backlash Over Alleged Unauthorized Use Of User Data To Train AI Models, Sparking 9 Privacy Complaints Across Europe
Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is under fire for allegedly using the data of European Union users to train artificial intelligence models without their consent.
Elon Musk的社交媒体平台X因涉嫌未经欧盟用户同意使用其数据来训练人工智能模型而受到谴责。
What Happened: X, a social media platform owned by Musk, is facing nine privacy complaints from EU users. The platform reportedly used the data of its EU users to train its AI chatbot, Grok, without obtaining their consent, TechCrunch reported on Monday.
事件经过：马斯克旗下的社交媒体平台X面临来自欧盟用户的九项隐私投诉。据TechCrunch周一报道，该平台据称在未获得欧盟用户同意的情况下使用其用户的数据来训练人工智能聊天机器人Grok。
The complaints have been filed with data protection authorities in nine EU countries, including Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. The accusations revolve around X's failure to obtain consent for processing EU users' posts for AI training.
投诉已经提交给包括奥地利、比利时、法国、希腊、爱尔兰、意大利、荷兰、波兰和西班牙在内的九个欧盟国家的数据保护机构。控诉围绕X未能获得处理欧盟用户的帖子用于人工智能训练的同意展开。
Max Schrems, the chairman of privacy rights nonprofit noyb, which is supporting the complaints, stated, "We want to ensure that Twitter fully complies with EU law, which — at a bare minimum — requires to ask users for consent in this case."
隐私权非盈利组织noyb主席Max Schrems表示：“我们要确保Twitter完全遵守欧盟法律，这至少要求在这种情况下要求用户同意。”
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which oversees X's compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), has already taken legal action against X for its AI model training. However, noyb argues that the DPC's actions are insufficient.
负责监督X在欧盟通用数据保护条例(GDPR)方面合规性的爱尔兰数据保护委员会(DPC)已经对X的人工智能模型训练采取了法律行动。然而，noyb认为DPC的行动还不够。
X Corp, did not immediately respond to Benzinga's request for comment.
X机构尚未回应Benzinga的请求评论。
Why It Matters: In late July, users discovered that X had enabled a setting by default that allowed their posts to be used for training Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI, a separate venture by Musk. Users could disable this feature through privacy settings, but the default activation without prior notice raised concerns.
为什么这很重要：7月下旬，用户们发现X默认启用了一个设置，允许他们的帖子用于由马斯克另一家创业公司xAI开发的AI聊天机器人Grok的训练。用户可以通过隐私设置关闭此功能，但未经事先通知的默认激活引起了担忧。
Musk emphasized that real-time data from X, Tesla Inc. cars, and Optimus robots would make Grok the "best AI system in the world." He highlighted the importance of having the most potent training compute and improving it rapidly to stay ahead of competitors like OpenAI.
马斯克强调，来自X、特斯拉汽车和Optimus机器人的实时数据将使Grok成为“世界上最好的AI系统”。他强调了拥有最强大的训练计算资源并迅速改进它以保持领先地位的重要性，以应对OpenAI等竞争对手。
In June, Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research expressed his support for Grok, favoring it over rival platforms. He shared that Grok was the only chatbot that provided a satisfactory response to his query, unlike other chatbots that refused due to content concerns.
今年6月，New Street Research的Pierre Ferragu对Grok表示支持，认为它比竞争对手更好。他分享了Grok是唯一的聊天机器人，能对他的询问给出令他满意的答案，而其他聊天机器人则因内容问题而拒绝。
Earlier in July, Musk revealed that the upcoming version of Grok would be trained on a staggering 100,000 NVIDIA Corp.'s H100 chips, underscoring the significant resources invested in its development.
今年7月，马斯克透露，即将推出的Grok版本将在10万个NVIDIA公司的H100芯片上进行训练，突显该机器人开发所投入的巨大资源。
