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Meta gets EU regulator nod to train AI with social media content


The Giant Meta has been given a green light from European Union’s data data to train artificial intelligence models using the public shared content on social media platforms.

Posts and comments from adult users across Meta’s stable platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, including questions and query to company aiwill now be used to improve its AI models, meta Says In a post on the blog of April 14th.

The company said that “it is important for our generative AI models to be trained in various data so that they can understand the incredible and diverse nuances and complexity that make up European communities.”

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Meta has a green light from EU data regulators to train AI models using public shared content on social media. Source: Meta

“This means that all from dialects and colloquialism, to hyper-local knowledge and the unique ways of different countries use humor and ridicule in our products,” he added.

However, private messages of people including friends, family and public data from EU account holders under the age of 18 are still on limits, according to Meta.

People can also opt out having their data used for AI training through a form that Meta says will be sent to in-app, via email and “easy to find, read, and use.”

EU regulators have already paused Tech Firms’ AI training plans

Last July, Meta Delayed AI training using public content Throughout its platform after Privacy Advocacy Group none of your business filed complaints with 11 European countrieswho saw the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) requesting a pausing of the controlling until a review was performed.

Complaints claiming changes to meta privacy policy will allow the company to use years of personal posts, private images, and online monitoring data to train AI products.