The complaints claimed Meta’s privacy policy changes would have allowed the company to use years of personal posts, private images, and online tracking data to train its AI products. Meta says it has now received permission from the EU’s data protection regulator, the European Data Protection Commission, that its AI training approach meets legal obligations and continues to engage “constructively with the IDPC.”“This is how we have been training our generative AI models for other regions since launch,” Meta said.“We’re following the example set by others, including Google and OpenAI, both of which have already used data from European users to train their AI models.”Related: EU could fine Elon Musk’s X $1B over illicit content, disinformationAn Irish data regulator opened a cross-border investigation into Google Ireland Limited last September to determine whether the tech giant followed EU data protection laws while developing its AI models.
The company said it’s “important for our generative AI models to be trained on a variety of data so they can understand the incredible and diverse nuances and complexities that make up European communities.”Meta has a green light from data regulators in the EU to train its AI models using publicly shared content on social media.
Tech giant Meta has been given the green light from the European Union’s data regulator to train its artificial intelligence models using publicly shared content across its social media platforms.
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