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The Irish watchdog said earlier this month that Elon Musk's social media platform X has agreed to permanently stop processing user data for
its AI chatbot Grok | (Photo: Bloomberg)2 min read Last Updated : Sep 12 2024 | 7:30 AM IST
European Union regulators said Thursday
they're looking into one of Google's artificial intelligence models over concerns about its compliance with the bloc's strict data privacy
rules.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission said it has opened an inquiry into Google's Pathways Language Model 2, also known as PaLM2
It's part of wider efforts, including by other national watchdogs across the 27-nation bloc, to scrutinize how AI systems handle personal
data.
Google's European headquarters are based in Dublin, so the Irish watchdog acts as the company's lead regulator for the bloc's
has assessed whether PaLM2's data processing would likely result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals" in the
EU.
Large language models like PaLM2 are vast troves of data that act as building blocks for artificial intelligence systems
Google uses PaLM2 to power a range of generative AI services including email summarizing
The company did not respond to a request for comment.
The Irish watchdog said earlier this month that Elon Musk's social media platform X
has agreed to permanently stop processing user data for its AI chatbot Grok
The platform did so only after the watchdog took it to court the month before, filing an urgent High Court application to get X to "suspend,
restrict or prohibit" processing of personal data contained in public posts by its users.
Meta Platforms paused its plans to use content
posted by European users to train the latest version of its large language model after apparent pressure from the Irish regulators
The decision "followed intensive engagement" between the two, the watchdog said in June.
Italy's data privacy regulator last year
temporarily banned ChatGPT because of data privacy breaches and demanded the chatbot's maker OpenAI meet a set of demands to resolve its
concerns.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is
auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Sep 12 2024 | 7:30 AMIST
