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Add as preferred source on GoogleA German court ruled against halting Meta's use of Facebook and Instagram data for AI training, allowing EU users to opt out.
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(Reuters) -A German consumer rights group on Friday failed to win a court injunction to stop Meta Platforms from training its artificial intelligence models with Facebook and Instagram user posts.
The court in the western city of Cologne said it did not grant an injunction sought by state-funded consumer rights group Verbraucherzentrale NRW.
Meta said last month it would train its AI models in the European Union with public posts of adults across its platforms, as well as with interactions that users have with its artificial intelligence.
Meta said at the time that its platforms' users in the EU would be notified of the project and that they would be given the opportunity to opt out.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, Editing by Friederike Heine)
The German consumer rights group Verbraucherzentrale NRW sought a court injunction to stop Meta Platforms from using Facebook and Instagram user posts for training its AI models.
The court in Cologne did not grant the injunction that the consumer rights group sought.
Meta announced that it would train its AI models in the EU using public posts from adults across its platforms, along with user interactions with its AI.
Meta stated that users in the EU would be notified about the AI training project and would have the opportunity to opt out.
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