Meta says it will resume AI training with public content from European users

Meta is set to train its AI models with Europeans' public data, and you can stop it doing so

The Big Tech giant resumes its AI training plan, after pausing the launch of Meta AI amid EU data regulators' concerns.

Meta to start using Europeans' data for AI training May 27

PARIS, France — Meta will start using public posts and comments by its European users to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) models from May 27, unless users opt out of the data-mining project. Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, said earlier this week that it would develop its AI models with European users’

Big Tech should pay more for data they train AI systems on, Nobel laureate says

Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has thrown some support behind creative industries, which have been battling tech firms to be compensated for their work.

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), has supported the creative industries, which are struggling to get compensation for their work from technology companies.

Meta to start using Europeans’ data for AI training from May 27

Anything from Instagram photo captions to Facebook comments could soon be fair game for Meta AI. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Mark Zuckerberg's group is now also using everything that adults in the EU publish on Facebook and Instagram to optimize their AI. How to avoid this is unclear.