The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has opened an investigation into X, the social media platform owned by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, on whether its use of Canadians’ personal data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models broke privacy rules.
“The investigation will focus on the platform’s compliance with federal privacy law with respect to its collection, use, and disclosure of Canadians’ personal information to train artificial intelligence models,” their statement said.
Musk, CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla, is also the founder of artificial intelligence startup xAI.
Following Musk’s 2022 purchase of Twitter and its subsequent renaming as X, the social media platform made xAI’s Grok chatbot available to its users.
Grok is an AI assistant that helps users complete tasks, including answering questions, solving problems and brainstorming, X says on its website.
Last week, xAI introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, which is being rolled out immediately to Premium+ subscribers on X.
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