Meta announced this Friday that it has paused the ‘training’ of its artificial intelligence (Meta AI) with data from its users in Europe following a request from the privacy regulator of Ireland, where the company has its international operations center.
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), on his “intense.”
Meta was scheduled to expand its AI to Europe on June 26.
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Meta was going to expand its AI to Europe on June 26, and this past Monday it explained that it had to train it in its idiosyncrasies following “the example” of Google and OpenAI, for which it was sending notifications from its users about the plans and giving the possibility to “object” to those who preferred to be excluded.
The technology company expressed in a note its “disappointment” at the step taken by the DPC, pointing out that it had already incorporated the regulators’ demands and that the data protection authorities had been notified “since March”, and claiming to be “more transparent ” than its rivals in the sector.
Facebook expressed in a note its “disappointment” at the step taken by the DPC
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“We remain very confident that our method complies with European laws and regulations“said Meta, who reaffirmed his commitment to bringing Meta AI to Europe but considered that “without including local information, we will only be able to offer people a second-class experience.”
“This means that we cannot launch Meta AI in Europe at the moment,” he noted.
While Meta’s plans remain on hold, the company said it will collaborate with the DPC and address “specific requests” it has received from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office “before commencing training.”
The activist group NOYB, which had pressured several European data protection authorities to stop the technology company’s plans, today celebrated the decision and criticized that Meta informed only some users and that it offered those who wanted to object a “misleading and complicated” path. “.
The DPC last year fined Meta a record $1.3 billion for violating its privacy rules.
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