back to article Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil

Meta's plan to expand its AI presence in South America has been hamstrung, with Brazilian officials today banning the Facebook parent company from using its citizens' data to train AI algorithms. The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) issued what it described today as a "preventative measure" that would immediately …

  1. Version 1.0 Silver badge
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    Not a new problem

    Brazil’s official language is Portuguese but Brazilian names are not just copies of "Bill Smith" etc.. typical Brazilian names can have a lot more letters than common western names. I saw a problem based on this many years ago where the English database for Brazilian names was only looking at the first 16 characters, ignoring the entire length. I fixed it back then by simply describing the location of the problem to the Brazilian programmers so they fixed it ASAP.

    Brazil is a very nice environment, I have always loved my visits when problems occur so I was never unhappy about my old company's "problems" there.

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Re: Not a new problem

      Great story, but what has that got to do with this article?

      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Not a new problem

        The situation - when AI was illustrated in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ... AI kept saying it was working perfectly, but the astronauts realized it needed a human fix.

  2. Zippy´s Sausage Factory
    Devil

    FTFY

    "This is a step backwards for innovation surveillance capitalism, competition in AI development promoting political extremism and further delays bringing the benefits of AI revenue from data mining to people our profits in Brazil," the Meta spokesperson added.

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