On Wednesday 4 September, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which acts on behalf of the European Union, announced that the social network X had made a definitive commitment to stop using the data of its European users for its artificial intelligence (AI) model. The project was put on hold last August, following widespread criticism regarding privacy issues and legal action taken by the DPC.
The platform is the third to halt the development of its AI model in the EU and the second...