Metaai will be launched across Europe, months after the company has faced regulators’ questions for the use of personal data to train its AI models.
ADVERTISEMENTThe European Commission is awaiting a risk assessment by META to verify whether the new AI cat’s chat function of the technology giant meets the obligations under the rules of the EU online platform, a commission spokesman in Euronews told.
The spokesman said that “certain aspects” of Metaai are the scope of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which establishes standards for safety and transparency.
Under DSA, a company must submit risk assessments to the Commission each year, but also before the deployment of new functions.
“Once we have received the risk assessment, we will carefully analyze all the relevant documents to ensure compliance with the DSA and that the functionality presents no undue risk within the European Union,” said the spokesperson.
Meta announcement Last week, she will deploy Metaai through the EU. It was deployed in the United States in September 2023, followed by India in June 2024 and in the United Kingdom in October.
His plan to continue expansion in Europe was interrupted Last summer due to “regulatory unpredictability”: the Irish data protection committee declared to the company postpA His plan because he planned to use Facebook and Instagram adult user data to train his large language models (LLM).
“It took more time that we would not have liked to put our AI technology in the hands of people in Europe while we continue to sail in its complex regulation system – but we are happy that we are finally there,” said Meta in a blog article last week.
A company spokesman said in a statement in Euronews that Meta had been “fully transparent with the European Commission on the launch of Meta AI”.
“We are confident in our compliance and remain in the current dialogue with the Commission,” added the press release.
The company – including its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the head of world policy Joel Kaplan – have been critical Regulatory measures of Europe against American technological companies, all the more after the new American administration of Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.