Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta license to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts made by Europeans on its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms, the US big tech firm began its training. The Meta decision is good news for Europe’s AI industry and shows regulators are embracing innovation, according to Gretchen Scott, a lawyer with Goodwin. But its legal justification will remain uncertain, she said, “until we get something like an ECJ decision”. “This ultimately can only get resolved through the top court,” said Scott.