Meta begins training AI models for public content in the EU
Meta announcement On Monday, they plan to train AI models with public content such as previous EU posts and comments, including posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram. Suspend plans to do so In response to regulatory pressures due to data privacy concerns. The company said this week it will begin training AI on user content in the EU. User interaction with meta AI is also used to train the model.
Announcements will be made after a limited version of Meta AI was released in the EU Since debuting last month in the US and other global markets.
Meta is That AI training US user-generated content faces EU resistance as BLOC’s strict privacy laws, particularly the general data protection regulations (GDPR), require a clear legal basis for processing personal data to train AI models.
Meta said Returning to June 2024 Following a pushback from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), we will suspend plans to start training AI systems using EU and UK user data. The DPC regulated the EU’s META and acted on behalf of several data protection authorities across the block. in September 2024said it is resuming efforts to train AI systems using public posts from the UK user base.
Fast forward to today. Meta has announced that it will also do so in public posts from the EU user base.
“Last year, regulators delayed training large-scale language models using public content while clarifying legal requirements,” Meta said in a blog post. “We welcome the opinions provided by EDPB in December. This confirmed that the original approach meets legal obligations. Since then, we are looking forward to being constructively involved with IDPC and bringing the full benefits of generated AI to the people of Europe.”
Starting this week, EU users will begin receiving in-app and email notifications to show that Meta will start using public data with Meta AI to train their models. These notifications include links to forms that allow users to opt out of the data they are using. Meta says it respects all objections it has already received and what has been submitted.
Meta points out that it does not use private messages or public data from users from users under the age of 18 to train the model.
“We believe that we have a responsibility to build AI that is not only available to Europeans, but is actually built for them,” Meta says. “That’s why it’s so important that our generative AI models are trained with a variety of data, allowing us to understand the incredibly diverse nuances and complexities that make up our European community. It means that it all comes from dialect and colloquialism, from the use of moisture and irony in our products.”
Meta follows examples set up by companies like Google and Openai, both say they already use data from European users to train AI models.
Meanwhile, DPC has not made its way completely from scrutinizing how large language models of the language models that Creator is training AI services. Last week, regulatory authorities announcement I was researching Xai’s Grok training.