The Meta technology giant has received the green light from the European Union data regulator to train its artificial intelligence models using publicly shared content on its social media platforms.
The publications and comments of adult users through Meta de Meta’s Stable of Platforms, notably Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger, as well as questions and requests to the company AI assistant, will now be used to improve its AI models, Meta said in a blog article on April 14.
The company said that it is “important that our generative AI models are formed on a variety of data so that they can understand the incredible and diverse shades and complexities that make up the European communities”.
Meta has a green light from data regulators in the EU to train its AI models using publicly shared content on social networks. Source: Meta
“This means everything, dialects and families, hyper-local knowledge and distinct ways of different countries use humor and sarcasm on our products,” he added.
However, private messages from people with friends, family and public data for EU account holders under the age of 18 are still prohibited, according to Meta.
People can also withdraw from the use of their data for AI training via a form which, according to Meta, will be sent to the application, by e-mail and “easy to find, read and use”.
EU regulators have paused the training plans for technological companies
Last July, Meta delayed the training of its AI by using public content on its platforms after the private life defense group, none of your activities has filed complaints in 11 European countries, which saw the Irish data protection commission (IDPC) request a deployment break until an examination is carried out.
Complaints said that Meta’s privacy policy has enabled the company to use years of personal publications, private images and online monitoring data to train its AI products.
Meta says that he has now received the authorization of the EU data protection regulator, the European Data Protection Commission, that its AI training approach responds to legal obligations, and the company continues to commit “in constructively with the IDPC”.
“This is how we train our generative AI models for other regions since the launch,” said Meta.
“We follow the example given by others, including Google and Openai, who have already used European user data to train their AI models.”
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An Irish data regulator opened a cross -border survey on Google Ireland Limited last September to determine whether the technology giant followed EU data protection laws while developing its AI models.
X faced a similar examination and agreed to stop using personal data from EU and European Economic Area last September. Previously, X had used this data to form his Grok artificial intelligence chatbot.
The EU launched its AI Act in August 2024, establishing a legal framework for technology which included provisions for quality, security and data confidentiality.
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