May 23 (Reuters) - A German consumer rights group on

Friday failed to win a court injunction to stop Meta Platforms ( META )

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.