Meta has suspended using its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the corporate from coaching its AI fashions on private knowledge from Brazilians. The transfer places a dent in Facebook’s try and construct out its AI merchandise in Brazil, a market with greater than 200 million individuals.
As cited within the official doc, the Brazilian authority stated that the safety measure is because of “the imminent risk of serious harm and irreparable or difficult-to-repair damage to the fundamental rights of guardians.”
Additionally, the ANPD set a each day superb of 50,000 reais in case of non-compliance.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the choice in a press release to TechCrunch, saying, “We decided to suspend genAI features that were previously live in Brazil while we engage with the ANPD to address their questions around genAI.”
Meta has already been coaching its AI utilizing user-generated content material within the U.S. and different markets for a number of years. But in May, Meta needed to pause plans to coach its AI fashions in Europe and the UK after the Irish Data Protection Commission pushed again in opposition to these plans.
