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X’s new AI training opt-out setting draws regulatory scrutiny

X’s new AI training opt-out setting draws regulatory scrutiny - SiliconANGLE

The Irish Data Protection Commission, the regulator that oversees X Corp.’s business practices in the European Union, has sent the company questions over a newly added privacy setting. A similar opt-out option is expected to arrive on the social network’s mobile apps “soon.” It’s unclear whether X began gathering users’ information for AI training purposes before it rolled out the ability to turn off data collection. Grok 1.5V achieved a score of 53.6% on MMMLU, a popular benchmark for comparing multimodal LLMs, which puts it about five percentage points behind Google LLC’s Gemini Pro 1.5.

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