Elon Musk Faces New Penalties for Teaching His AI X Tweets Without Notifying Users | Technology

Several users of the platform sent their tweets online. Grock, what’s the name of the car? reasonable which Musk is promoting for X will be trained in this way by all its users’ posts without them even knowing it, unless they explicitly prevent such a possibility in…

Several users of the platform sent their tweets online. Grock, what’s the name of the car? reasonable which Musk is pushing for X will be trained in this way by all of its users’ posts without them even knowing it, unless they explicitly prevent this possibility in the platform’s settings.

This is a change in policy without explicit notice. tweetershas raised eyebrows among privacy and legal experts Online. Just two weeks ago, the European Commission filed a case against X for “cheating users” using its account verification system. This unexpected change could be a fresh warning sign for regulators. A spokesperson for the Irish Data Protection Commission has already said they are “surprised” by the move and are awaiting a response from Musk’s team. EU data regulations generally do not allow default checkboxes or any other methods of obtaining default consent.

The way to stop X from collecting every user’s message data now that it’s been exposed is simple. Just go to Grok’s settings (via this link or under Settings > Privacy & Security > Grok) and uncheck the option that says, “Allow your messages, as well as your interactions, recordings, and results with Grok, to be used for learning and improvement.” Of course, you can only turn it off on the web version, as the option isn’t available on the mobile app, which could undoubtedly create more problems for Musk’s legal teams.

In additional information about this configuration, X assures that “to continually improve your experience, we may use your messages on And it adds: “This also means that your interactions, inputs, and results may be shared with our service provider xAI for these purposes.” That is, they will share these databases with xAI, the company Musk created to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

It’s unclear when this AI model, Musk’s answer to the success of ChatGPT, launched in November 2023 as a “rebel” version that could answer “naughty” questions. The chatbot was not initially trained on X data, as per the company’s own specifications.

Currently, only paid X subscribers can interact with and search Grok, meaning that for now, premium users of the platform will be able to access everyone else’s posts. Ironically, after acquiring Twitter, Musk assured that his “master and servant system” must end, tweeting, “Power to the people.”

Musk’s complaints about Twitter’s elitist system centered on the blue seal verification, a sign that some accounts had next to their name. It was a method the platform used to verify certain important or sensitive accounts that might be impersonating someone else. That way, all users knew that the person or organization was who they said they were. The mogul decided to subvert this system and turn it into a payment system, which opened the door to confusion: fake accounts seemed to be verified simply because they spent a few euros in exchange for the blue seal.

This is what prompted the European Commission to issue a preliminary opinion on July 12 warning X that it violates the Digital Services Act (DSA) “in areas related to dark patterns, advertising transparency and access to data for researchers.” Brussels believes that the new policy of checking content and advertising accounts

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