Irish Data Protection Commission clears Meta to train AI on EU citizens' data
The Irish Data Protection Commission has cleared the way for Meta to begin slurping up the data of European citizens for training AI next week, ongoing legal challenges notwithstanding.
The DPC said in a statement yesterday that Meta had made a number of improvements to its proposal to harvest the public-facing posts of European users of its various social media platforms for teaching its neural networks. Those changes appear to have satisfied concerns the DPC expressed early last year when Meta first revealed its AI data collection intentions, which ultimately led to the Facebook parent suspending its plans following numerous complaints from privacy advocates.
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