Meta to resume AI training with public content from European users

Social media company Meta said on Monday (April 14) that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models, resuming work put on hold last year after activists raised concerns about data privacy.

The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said that it would train its AI systems using public posts and comments shared by adult users in the 27-nation European Union. “People’s interactions with Meta AI — like questions and queries — will also be used to train and improve our…