Facebook owner Meta seeks to train AI model on European data as it faces privacy concerns

Meta said Monday it wants to use data from users in privacy-conscious Europe to train its artificial intelligence models. It's facing concerns about data protection while battling to keep up with rivals like OpenAI and Google. The company owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. It said that in order to better reflect the “languages, geography and cultural references” of its Europe users, it needs to use public data from those users to teach its Llama AI large language model. Meta’s AI training efforts are hampered by stringent European Union data privacy laws, which give people control over how their personal information is used.