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WATCH: Austrian advocacy group NOYB filed a complaint against social media platform X, accusing the Elon Musk-owned company of training its artificial intelligence with users’ personal data without their consent in violation of EU privacy law https://t.co/UJhK0JaFXR pic.twitter.com/1zQuA4qUUP
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Look. I hate Elon Musk more than anyone. But I don’t think he should be extradited to the UK because he is against stabbing, and I don’t think he needs written permission to train his AI on stuff you publicly post on the internet.
The posts are public. You are purposefully sharing information. Humans are allowed to learn from this information. That’s why you post it, no? To allow other humans to learn about your views.
So why shouldn’t a robot be able to learn from it?
Austrian advocacy group NOYB on Monday filed a complaint against social media platform X accusing the Elon Musk-owned company of training its artificial intelligence (AI) with users’ personal data without their consent in violation of EU privacy law.
The group led by privacy activist Max Schrems announced that it had filed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints with authorities in nine European Union authorities to ramp up pressure on the Irish data protection authority DPC.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the lead EU regulator for most of the top U.S. internet firms due to the location of their EU operations in the country, has sought an order to suspend or restrict X from processing the data of users for the purposes of developing, training or refining its AI systems.
X has agreed not to train its AI systems for now using personal data collected from EU users before they had the option to withdraw their consent, an Irish court heard last week.
However, NOYB said the DPC complaint is mainly concerned with mitigation measures and a lack of cooperation by X, and does not question the legality of the data processing itself.
I don’t know what the “privacy” thing even is. Is it location data? I don’t know how that would be very helpful to an AI. But whatever it is, people are giving it to him by signing up on the site. He’s not stealing data from their computers. He’s not installing malware and hacking them.
Anyway, the main thing the AI is going to want to learn from is posts, as well as conversations with the AI. And then what people like and so on.
I think the collection of location data and personal identifiers should be illegal anyway. I guess you want the site to know your language, and they need to target you with ads. Regardless, whatever data Twitter is allowed to collect, they should also be allowed to train AI on. People don’t have a right for stuff they put out there to not be used to train AI.
And listen, trust me: if any AI is a “threat,” it is not Elon Musk’s “Grok,” which is an absolute joke. If you’re worried about AI, go look at what Gates and Altman are up to.
Grok is not the droid you’re looking for.
“It seems the DPC was concerned with so-called ‘mitigation measures’ and a lack of cooperation by Twitter. The DPC seems to take action around the edges, but shies away from the core problem.”
Read more about our 9 complaints against Twitter’s AI plans 👇https://t.co/QtLCfhFWPK
— noyb (@NOYBeu) August 12, 2024
