Musk’s AI startup xAI has been developing a group of AI models under the name Grok, which are used to power things like the AI chatbot available on the X platform.
Grok’s gobbling of EU data was already the subject of scrutiny from the Irish regulator last year, when X — after a battle in the Irish courts — agreed to suspend the use of EU citizens’ data to train its AI models.
The Irish regulator said on Friday that its new investigation will examine whether X has been complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including whether data was processed lawfully and according to transparency rules.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.