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ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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> This browser extension removes cookie warnings from almost all websites and saves you thousands of unnecessary clicks! https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

The only thing holding me back from using that extension is > In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). If there was a way to be assured that 99.9% of the time it hit reject all, i…

With Temporary Containers extension it's fine that some sites set cookies, so then it doesn't matter that much how the script removes the dialog.

Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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Anything that reduces e-waste, yes.

Really, a brand new plug becomes available today, the EU mandates its usage and you think that reduces e-waste?

Yes. What makes you think that it has no effect on, or even increases, e-waste?

Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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Good. Thanks to the EU I have to click "cookie question" every where I go. Thanks guys for wasting the limited time I have in life.

It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners. Those banners are only required if a website plans to do malicious things with the cookies. If they're used to track who's logged in, they are not required. They are more akin to the "Do not eat" warnings on silica packs... except on the internet everyone swallows.

>It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners.

Yes it is.

Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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Laughable attempt to control something very few can understand at the moment. What does control mean? You want to control who can access it? Maybe for now, you can broker a deal with OpenAI, but this technology will eventually spread, then if can be self hosted, what can you do? If not for consumer facing, nothing will stop somebody to transfer data from EU to US to get their data processed by a GPT model. This level…

If the EU makes a law that companies or public institutions can't use (or limit the use) for AI in recruitment, administration of justice or social scoring, they will just outsource it to the US?

And suddenly they are allowed to do it? I have my doubts.

They risk risk up to 30 Million EUR or 6% of global revenue in penalties.

Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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The regulation says nothing about a cookie banner. Instead, it says companies cannot track you unless you give consent. If you don't like cookie banners, which are indeed really annoying, you should be turning your ire to the companies that wish to track you. They are fully-functional solutions that allow anonymous tracking without installing cookies on your computer - no banner needed then.

I'm a grown up adult and if I wanted to block tracking I could. The fact that I don't should be the only answer needed but that's not good enough for the EU. They want to force companies to ask me because they want to take care of me and make sure I'm all right. You know, I left home at 18 to get away from my parents...

> if I wanted to block tracking I could

Are you sure? It starts from simple supercookie-like stuff and ends at TrustPID where the network provider aids in tracking.

Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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this reminds me of the anti-tracking legislation, let's be honest it's a complete failure and further forces people into large silos

at the end of the day legislation won't save you and there is no substitute for competition, this is true for tracking policies and AI too

even for surveillance this is true - surveillance is most dangerous when it cannot be countered with individual citizen empowerment, by either having the choice to avoid it or to flip some surveillance back on the State or corporation

Re: ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

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Good. Thanks to the EU I have to click "cookie question" every where I go. Thanks guys for wasting the limited time I have in life.

You should try working in an international company, on the Europe side, and communicate with the US side.

You'll quickly learn that what the EU does is very very very good for privacy, I have contacts in a major company and they were shocked at how the US branch operates, they have absolutely no sense of privacy, no anonymisation, no limitation on what is stored or tracked, no consent, &c. they just scrape and store as much as they can for "future use"

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