{"id":19788,"date":"2025-04-14T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19788\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:45:07","slug":"meta-to-begin-training-ai-on-user-data-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19788\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to Begin Training AI on User Data in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta<\/a> will begin using content shared by adults in the European Union to train its artificial intelligence models after the European Data Protection Board<\/a>\u00a0said the company\u2019s approach met its legal requirements.<\/p>\n

The company plans to train its AI using public content \u2014 including public posts and comments shared by adults on its products in the EU \u2014 and people\u2019s questions, queries and other interactions with Meta AI, Meta said in a Monday (April 14) blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meta will not use public data from account holders in the EU who are under the age of 18, people\u2019s private messages with family and friends, or data from users who submit an objection form provided by the company, according to the post.<\/p>\n

The company launched Meta AI<\/a> in the EU in March and plans to make its chat function available for free across the region within its messaging apps: Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, WhatsApp<\/a> and Messenger<\/a>, per the post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe we have a responsibility to build AI that\u2019s not just available to Europeans, but is actually built for them,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n

By training its generative AI models on data from EU users, it will be better able to understand European dialects, colloquialisms, hyper-local knowledge and other aspects so it can serve the region\u2019s users, according to the post.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that the kind of AI training we\u2019re doing is not unique to Meta, nor will it be unique to Europe,\u201d the post said. \u201cThis is how we have been training our generative AI models for other regions since launch. We\u2019re following the example set by others including Google<\/a> and OpenAI<\/a>, both of which have already used data from European users to train their AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was reported in July that Meta decided to withhold what was at the time its latest multimodal AI model<\/a> from the EU, citing an \u201cunpredictable\u201d regulatory environment in the region.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s retreat stemmed from uncertainties surrounding compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), particularly AI model training using user data from its products.<\/p>\n

In June, a European privacy group said it filed complaints with 11 European countries, arguing that Meta\u2019s use of user data<\/a> in its proposed AI practices violated the GDPR.<\/p>\n

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