Meta will use your social media posts to train its AI. Europe gets an opt out

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What's German for 'thank goodness for actually useful privacy regulations'?

Meta will start training its AI models using everyone's social media posts though European Union users can opt out, a luxury the rest of the world won't enjoy.Meta has so far not included its European userbase in its AI training data, presumably to avoid legal conflict with the continent's privacy regulations. Now it's pushing ahead with that

"To do this, we want to train our large language models that power AI features using the content that people in the EU have chosen to share publicly on Meta's products and services." This is substantially different from the rest of the world, where opting out just isn't a choice. Granted, it's already too late to opt out for training data used for Meta's LLaMa 3, but even training for future models is mandatory for Facebook and Instagram users outside of the EU. Perhaps users outside of Europe will be able to choose to opt out in the future, but for now it's a feature exclusive to the EU.

 

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