Meta to inform Brazilian users how it uses personal data to train AI models – report
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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) will inform users in Brazil how it plans to use their personal data to train generative AI models, following a demand from the country’s data protection authority, Reuters reported.
Starting Tuesday, users of Meta in Brazil will receive the warnings by email and notifications on Facebook and Instagram, and will be able to reject the use of their data by the company to train generative AI, the report added.
In July, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANDP) suspended Meta’s new privacy policy over the use of personal data to train AI. The agency, however, overturned the decision last week noting that Meta had agreed to issue the disclosures, the report noted.
Meta had actively suspended the use of generative AI features, including tools used to create AI-made stickers for messaging app WhatsApp, in Brazil in July.
The social media giant had said at the time that it took the decision to suspend the tools while it was in talks with the Brazilian data protection regulator to address the agency’s concerns over its use of generative AI.
Meta reiterated that the suspension was issued while it was in talks with the ANPD, on being asked if the company would resume the AI tools as the agency had removed the suspension, the report added.
Generative AI services have taken the world by storm since the launch of Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. Companies worldwide are developing their own large language model, or LLMs, which require large amounts of data to be trained on.
Some companies, developing AI models, are facing lawsuits over alleged misuse of copyrighted material. Previously, separate groups of authors had filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta over the alleged misuse of works to train the companies’ LLMs, which power their AI chatbots.
Recently, AI startup Anthropic was facing a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who alleged that the San Francisco-based company misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI chatbot Claude.