The operator of the 'X' social media platform has given an undertaking to the High Court to temporarily cease processing the personal data of its European users to train any of its Artificial Intelligence systems.

X are being sued by the Irish data regulator for breaching the GDPR in processing European citizens’ data for Grok AI without an initial opt-out.

The pause is a temporary measure until they return to the Irish High Court.

It finally feels like these data vampires are being tackled even if the pace is a crawl.

  • PikaEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    That’s true as well that I hadn’t thought of, one could just spin up a VPS in a country that doesn’t give a shit about licensing agreements and use a bot to scrape the data, or even just spin a instance up and Federate/subscribe with everyone that is an open instance / doesn’t use the whitelist (i.e most of the instances) and scrape that way. The only real defense against the latter is defederation, but that system isn’t very advanced and is easily bypassable if you don’t have a bunch of users

    Personally I would be absolutely shocked if this wasn’t already happening, downside of a free/decentralized protocol I guess

    • just another devEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Better yet, just spin up your own instance, subscribe to all major communities, and have the servers push the comments to yours. No scraping required, and nobody will ever find out it was you.

      Statistically it’s likely to have happened already.