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Advocacy group threatens Meta with injunction over use of EU data for AI training

Economic Times

Economic Times · 3m ago

Advocacy group threatens Meta with injunction over use of EU data for AI training

Austrian advocacy group NOYB plans legal action against Meta over its use of personal data from European Instagram and Facebook users to train AI models, potentially leading to billion-euro damages. Meta claims a legitimate interest under EU rules, allowing data usage unless users opt out. NOYB challenges this reasoning, citing privacy concerns and urging Meta to seek explicit consent instead. A potential injunction could involve collective lawsuits under EU law.

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Meta’s AI project faces privacy complaints in Europe

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Livemint · 1y ago

Meta’s AI project faces privacy complaints in Europe

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms is facing privacy complaints from a European advocacy group over its new AI project. The Vienna-based NGO, Noyb-European Center for Digital Rights, has filed complaints in 11 European countries, urging privacy bodies to stop Meta's project before changes to its privacy policy take effect. The complaints highlight the challenges faced by big tech companies as they use user data to train AI models. Meta maintains that its approach is compliant with privacy laws and aligned with other tech firms. The complaints come as EU lawmakers introduce comprehensive legislation on AI and data privacy.

Meta will not launch Meta AI in Europe for now

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

Meta will not launch Meta AI in Europe for now

Meta Platforms will not introduce its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, in Europe after a request from the Irish privacy regulator. This decision follows complaints and a call for action against Meta by advocacy group NOYB in multiple European countries. The issue revolves around Meta's use of personal data to train its AI models without obtaining consent, even though the company claims to only utilize publicly available and licensed information. The Irish Data Protection Commission has asked Meta to postpone training its language models using content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram. Meta expressed disappointment, stating that this request hinders innovation and competition in AI development in Europe. Therefore, Meta AI will not be launched in Europe for now.

X hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI training

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

X hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI training

NOYB, an Austrian advocacy group, has filed a complaint against social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, accusing the company of using users' personal data without their consent to train its artificial intelligence (AI). The group has filed complaints with authorities in nine European Union countries, putting pressure on the Irish data protection authority. X has agreed not to use personal data from EU users without consent, but NOYB claims that X lacks cooperation in mitigating the issue. The complaint focuses on ensuring X complies with EU law by obtaining user consent.

EU privacy watchdogs urged to oppose Meta's paid ad-free service

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

EU privacy watchdogs urged to oppose Meta's paid ad-free service

A group of 28 organizations, including privacy activist Max Schrems' advocacy group NOYB and the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, have sent a joint letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), urging them to oppose Meta Platforms' no-ads subscription service in Europe. They argue that the pay-for-privacy model sets a dangerous precedent that could be followed by other companies and undermine EU privacy standards. Meta defends their service by stating that it aims to comply with EU rules and give users a choice regarding data collection and targeted ads.

Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training - The Economic Times

Economic Times

Economic Times · 2m ago

Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training - The Economic Times

A group of authors is suing Microsoft, alleging the company used about 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its AI model, Megatron. Filed in a New York federal court, the lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against further use. This case joins several legal challenges concerning the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in AI training, highlighting ongoing debates around copyright infringement and fair use in the AI industry.

Elon Musk agrees that we've exhausted AI training data | TechCrunch

TechCrunch · 7m ago

Elon Musk agrees that we've exhausted AI training data | TechCrunch

Elon Musk and AI experts believe real-world data for training AI models is nearly exhausted, with a shift toward synthetic data anticipated. Musk, alongside Ilya Sutskever, suggests AI-generated data as a solution to this shortage. Companies like Microsoft and Meta already use synthetic data for AI training. While cost-effective, synthetic data poses risks like model collapse and bias if the initial training data is flawed. Despite this, the industry is moving toward AI self-learning with synthetic data.

Spanish prosecutors investigate Meta over data use for AI

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

Spanish prosecutors investigate Meta over data use for AI

Spanish prosecutors are investigating Facebook owner Meta over allegations of breaching data protection laws by using users' data to train its AI program. Meta announced last month that it was suspending the use of such data for training its artificial intelligence service in the European Union. The investigation comes after numerous complaints were received from Facebook and Instagram users, claiming that their information is being used by Meta for improving its AI. Prosecutors aim to protect users' personal data and will consult with the Spanish data protection authority for further actions.

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

Arstechnica

Arstechnica · 1m ago

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

A lawsuit claims Meta allegedly pirated and shared adult content via BitTorrent for AI training over several years, potentially exposing minors to explicit material. Strike 3 Holdings, an adult site operator, alleges Meta infringed copyrights on thousands of videos, utilizing their content to gain downloading advantages on BitTorrent and potentially improve its AI models. The suit seeks damages and an injunction to prevent further infringements, highlighting competitive disadvantages and ethical concerns.

OpenAI's ChatGPT targeted in Austrian privacy complaint

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

OpenAI's ChatGPT targeted in Austrian privacy complaint

Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI is facing a privacy complaint from advocacy group NOYB for not correcting incorrect information provided by its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which may be in violation of EU privacy rules. NOYB alleges that OpenAI refused to rectify or erase the data and did not disclose information about the data processed. NOYB has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority to investigate OpenAI's data processing. OpenAI has acknowledged the issue of ChatGPT providing incorrect information but has found it challenging to fix.

Don't want chatbots using your conversations for AI training? Some let you opt out

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

Don't want chatbots using your conversations for AI training? Some let you opt out

Chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, Copilot, Grok, and Claude use conversations with users to improve their AI models. Users should be cautious about sharing personal or sensitive information as these conversations might be used to train the algorithms behind these chatbots. While some companies provide options to opt out or delete chat histories, it may not always be possible. Users in the EU and UK have the right to object to their data being used for training AI systems. Opting out and privacy policies vary across different chatbot platforms.

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