Artists in Spanish-speaking Latin America — where AI regulation and privacy laws are outdated or nonexistent — are worried about the future of their work as Meta ramps up the training of its large language models by mining publicly shared content across its platforms. While the company gave its users in the EU and the U.K. the opportunity to protect their content — and has since paused its AI rollout there — most Meta users in Latin America will have no say in how the platforms use their content.

…Experts say governments don’t have to draft new AI legislation to shield their citizens’ online content — they can strengthen their data protection laws instead. In Europe, Meta is “facilitating the right to object through the data protection framework, not through the AI Act,” Lucía Camacho, public policy coordinator at digital rights group Derechos Digitales, told Rest of World, referring to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. “This is purely and simply data protection.”

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Pinto, L. (2024, July 15). Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out. Rest of World. https://restofworld.org/2024/meta-is-training-its-ai-with-public-instagram-posts-artists-in-latin-america-cant-opt-out/