Zuckerberg and Ek pointed towards EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and said the regulators are "creating delays and uncertainty" with the uneven application of the law. GDPR sets guidance on how personal data can be processed and transferred. Meta, in June, said it will not offer its multimodal AI model to customers in the EU due to a lack of clarity from regulators in the region. The social media company faced backlash when advocacy group NOYB filed complaints with 11 European nations, alleging that Meta plans to use personal data to train its artificial intelligence models without seeking user consent. Earlier in the year, several consumer groups in the European Union also filed complaints with their national data watchdogs against Meta, alleging breaches of the bloc's privacy rules related to user data.