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.
埃隆·馬斯克的社交媒體平台X因涉嫌在未經歐盟用戶同意的情況下使用其數據訓練人工智能模型而受到抨擊。
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.
發生了什麼：馬斯克旗下的社交媒體平台X面臨來自歐盟用戶的九起隱私投訴。據TechCrunch週一報道，據報道，該平台未經其歐盟用戶的同意就使用其歐盟用戶的數據來訓練其人工智能聊天機器人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.
這些投訴已向九個歐盟國家的數據保護機構提出，包括奧地利、比利時、法國、希臘、愛爾蘭、意大利、荷蘭、波蘭和西班牙。這些指控圍繞着X未能獲得同意來處理歐盟用戶的人工智能培訓帖子。
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."
支持投訴的隱私權非營利組織noyb的主席馬克斯·施雷姆斯表示：「我們希望確保Twitter完全遵守歐盟法律，在這種情況下，歐盟法律至少需要徵得用戶的同意。」
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.
負責監督X遵守歐盟《通用數據保護條例》（GDPR）的愛爾蘭數據保護委員會（DPC）已經對X的人工智能模型培訓採取了法律行動。但是，noyb認爲DPC的行動還不夠。
X Corp, did not immediately respond to Benzinga's request for comment.
X Corp沒有立即回應本辛加的置評請求。
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.
爲何重要：7月下旬，用戶發現X默認啓用了一項設置，該設置允許將他們的帖子用於訓練由馬斯克的另一家公司xAi開發的人工智能聊天機器人Grok。用戶可以通過隱私設置禁用此功能，但是在沒有事先通知的情況下默認激活引起了人們的擔憂。
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.
馬斯克強調，來自X、特斯拉公司汽車和擎天柱機器人的實時數據將使Grok成爲 「世界上最好的人工智能系統」。他強調了擁有最強大的訓練計算能力並快速對其進行改進以保持領先於OpenAI等競爭對手的重要性。
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.
6月，New Street Research的皮埃爾·費拉古表示支持Grok，而不是競爭對手的平台。他分享說，與其他因內容問題而拒絕的聊天機器人不同，Grok是唯一一個對他的詢問作出令人滿意的答覆的聊天機器人。
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.
7月初，馬斯克透露，即將推出的Grok版本將在驚人的10萬英偉達公司上接受訓練。”s H100 芯片，凸顯了爲其開發投入的大量資源。
