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Meta is planning to use your Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI - and not everyone can opt out

Facebook and Instagram users in the UK and the European Union may soon see their posts used to train artificial intelligence.

If you have an Instagram or Facebook account in the UK or European Union, everything you share publicly on those platforms may soon be used to train artificial intelligence (AI). The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) then asked the technology giant to delay training the large language models, which Meta's global engagement director for privacy policy Stefano Fratta called "disappointing". "We will continue to work collaboratively with the DPC so that people in Europe have access to and are properly served by the same level of AI innovation as the rest of the world."

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