Ireland's privacy cops open probe after Grok turns X into a deepfake factory
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Turns out 'spicy mode' needed a data protection impact assessment after all.
What happened
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has opened a comprehensive investigation into X over AI-generated sexualized images of real people, including children, created with the Grok chatbot integrated into the platform. The DPC is examining possible GDPR violations, including lack of a data protection impact assessment before launching the feature. The authority says it has been in contact with X since the first media reports several weeks earlier.