While the company will use data such as user queries and questions on Meta AI, private messages as well as public data from accounts of users under the age of 18, will not be used in the training.
The European Commission did not respond to a request for comment on Meta’s move.
Meta decided to pause the launch of its AI models in Europe last June after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) told the company to delay its plan to harness data from social media posts. It also faced backlash from advocacy group NOYB, which urged national privacy watchdogs to stop such use of social media content.
Elon Musk’s X and Alphabet’s Google are also being looked into by the Irish privacy regulator.
X is facing an investigation over the use of EU users’ personal data to train its AI system, Grok, while the DPC opened a probe into Google in September on whether the company adequately protected users’ data before using it to help develop its AI model.
