June 10 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms ( META )

plans to start incorporating social media content from

Europe to train its generative artificial intelligence models,

the company said on Monday.

Meta will train its Llama large language models using

content that people in the European Union have chosen to share

publicly on its platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, it

said in a blog post.

The shift appears to bring the company's approach in Europe

roughly in line with how it treats the data it feeds into its AI

models from elsewhere around the world, despite earlier caution

due to stringent EU privacy and transparency regulations.

Meta's top policy executive told Reuters in an interview in

September that it uses public Facebook and Instagram posts to

train its Llama models, while excluding private posts and

messages shared only with friends.

As of April, when the company started releasing the latest

versions of Llama, Meta was "still working on the right way to

do this in Europe," its chief product officer told Reuters at

the time.

The social media giant said last month that it would start

notifying Facebook and Instagram users in the European region

and the United Kingdom about how it uses public information

shared on Meta's services to develop and improve AI.

Advocacy group NYOB (none of your business) has filed

complaints challenging the move in countries across Europe,

saying the notifications were insufficient as EU privacy rules

required Meta to obtain opt-in consent from users.