Elon Musk's social media platform, X, has come under fire for automatically opting users into a program that uses their data to train its AI model, Grok.
This means X can use your posts, how you interact with the platform, and even the results Grok generates based on your data, all without your permission upfront.
You have to manually disable this feature, but it's currently tricky to find.
It's buried in the web app's settings and not even available on the mobile app!
This "auto-consent" goes against the data privacy laws in the UK and EU.
Those rules say companies can't use pre-checked boxes or other sneaky ways to get your permission for data collection.
The UK's data protection agency is investigating X.
Ireland's data protection agency, which oversees X in the EU, is also surprised by this move
X claims this data is necessary to improve the user experience.