If you are an EU resident with an Instagram or Facebook account, you should know that Meta will start training its AI models on your posted content. Don’t forget to opt-out of all AI processing, or delete your old accounts entirely.
Starting this week, users in the EU will start receiving in-app and email notifications to explain that Meta will start using public data and interactions with Meta ai to train its models. These notifications will include a link to a form that will allow users to opt out of their data being used. Meta says it will honor all objection forms it has already received, as well as newly submitted ones.
Meta notes that it doesn’t not use private messages, nor public data from users under the age of 18 in the EU, to train its models.
“We believe we have a responsibility to build AI that’s not just available to Europeans, but is actually built for them,” Meta says. “That’s why it’s so important for our generative AI models to be trained on a variety of data so they can understand the incredible and diverse nuances and complexities that make up European communities. That means everything from dialects and colloquialisms, to hyper-local knowledge and the distinct ways different countries use humor and sarcasm on our products.”
Meta says it’s following the example set by companies like Google and OpenAI, both of which have already used data from European users to train their AI models.