Hopefully just EU and not the European countries outside of EU.
Perfect example of corporate doublespeak.
"The EU regulatory environment is unpredictable" translates to "our products don't comply with regulation, and we'd rather not get fined". It's good that the fines are high enough and enforced now that companies are at least afraid of them.
Meta is still having issues complying with the GDPR, which has been in place for 6 years now. There's nothing "unpredictable" about it.
> A Meta representative told Axios that training on European data is key to ensuring its products properly reflect the terminology and culture of the region.
Sure. You just can't hoover up data without people's consent, as you normally do. What a concept.
> Meta says its decision also means that European companies will not be able to use the multimodal models even though they are being released under an open license.
seems like a dig at those French AI national champions
"unpredictable nature of European regulatory environment" reads as "8 years after GDPR, we still design our stuff mass surveillance style, and that may be problematic. Glad to live in an unpredictable country if it protects me from crap products that spy on me.
Oh dear, how will they live without the ability to make low budget smoothed over pictures of an anthropomorphic pickle dunking a basketball from a voice prompt. Truly, those dreadful europeans will suffer. /s
It’s telling that a company as privacy conscious (relatively speaking) and as deep pocketed as Apple can’t figure out how to comply with EU regulations: “ Apple similarly said last month that it won't release its Apple Intelligence features in Europe because of regulatory concerns.”
If that's the tradeoff for them not training on our photos and videos, then I am happy with that. However I suspect they might do it anyway, and it will just be harder for us to find out.