Meta announced on Friday that it has temporarily halted training of its artificial intelligence (Meta AI) using user data in Europe at the request of the privacy regulator in Ireland, where the company has an international operations centre.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), in its “Intense.”
Meta was going to expand its AI to Europe on June 26, and explained on Monday that it had to train it on its own by following the “example” of Google and OpenAI, which is why it was sending notifications to its users about the plans and giving the possibility to “object” those who… They prefer to exclude them. Yesterday, the technology company expressed in a note its “disappointment” with the step taken by the DPC, noting that it had already incorporated regulators’ demands and claiming to be “more transparent” than its competitors in the sector.
“Without including local information, we will only be able to offer people a second-rate experience,” said Meta, who reiterated his commitment to bringing Meta AI to Europe, but felt that “without including local information, we will only be able to offer people a second-rate experience.”
“This means we cannot launch Meta AI in Europe at the moment,” he stressed.
While Meta’s plans remain up in the air, the company said it will work with the DPC and address the “specific requests” it has received from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office “prior to commencing training.”
Activist group NOYB, which has lobbied various European data protection authorities to curb the technology’s plans, yesterday celebrated the decision and criticized Meta for only informing some users and offering a “misleading and convoluted” path for those who wanted to object.
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