French Prosecutors Raid X Offices and Summon Musk as U.K. Launches New Probe Into Grok
TL;DR
French prosecutors raided X's offices and summoned Elon Musk over an investigation into algorithm abuse and AI chatbot Grok, while X denies the allegations.
Source: TIME
French prosecutors carried out a search on the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X Feb. and summoned the billionaire owner to attend a hearing in April. Conducted by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, along with the French national cyber unit and European Union police agency Europol, the search marks an escalation of the ongoing investigation into X over suspected abuse of algorithms, plus allegations related to deepfake images and wider concerns over posts generated by the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok. After the initial investigation was launched early last year, the French national police became involved in July to look into alleged disruption of data processing system operations and fraudulent data extraction. In a statement issued via the social media platform, X said it “categorically denie[d] these allegations.” Full Story