European Union AI Act
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European Union AI Act
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Re: European Union AI Act
#2EU tech legislation is comical at this point. A bunch of rules that almost nobody follows and at best they fine FAANG companies a few hours of revenue.
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#3EU tech legislation is comical at this point. A bunch of rules that almost nobody follows and at best they fine FAANG companies a few hours of revenue.
EU legislators are totally detached from reality, it can be seen that they do not understand what is the matter with AI, for them it is just "another IT tool" that can be "regulated".
As always: US innovates, EU regulates.
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#4EU tech legislation is comical at this point. A bunch of rules that almost nobody follows and at best they fine FAANG companies a few hours of revenue.
I think they have it much better than over at faangland
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#6Marc Andreessen said that industries that stand to gain from AI may be shielded from it by existing licensing and regulations e.g. education, law, medical. This AI act adds a whole other layer of shielding.
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#7It's sad the comments here bashing this haven't understood the regulation, or haven't even read it and are just slamming it because in their mind EU REGULATION=BAD, AI=GOOD INNOVATION.
EU AI regulation isn't there to stop AI innovation, it's only there to restrict where and when AI can be used on decisions that affect people. For example, you can't deny someone healthcare, a bank account, a rental, unemployment payments, or a job, just because "computer says NO"[1].
I don't understand how people can be against this kind of regulation, especially knowing how biased and discriminatory AI can be made to be while also being a convenient scapegoat for poor policies implemented by lazy people in charge: "you see your honor it wasn't our policies and implementation that were discriminatory and ruined lives, it was the AI's fault, not ours".
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#8EU tech legislation is comical at this point. A bunch of rules that almost nobody follows and at best they fine FAANG companies a few hours of revenue.
That is evidently false? The EU got Apple to switch to USB-C, Google to open up Android's web search, Facebook to stop processing EU customers' data in the US, etc. Whenever I'm in the US and sign up for a service, I immediately get hit with weekly spam mail and "newsletters". And the only consistent way to terminate my account easily and completely delete my PII is by using an EU VPN.
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#9EU tech legislation is comical at this point. A bunch of rules that almost nobody follows and at best they fine FAANG companies a few hours of revenue.
Theres some reasonably sensible stuff here. I am strongly in favor of stuff like banning ai-based profiling of people by law enforcement, prediction of criminal offences and social scoring systems.
Can you explain why you think this is comical?
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#10I'm tentatively a fan of the high-risk portion of this legislation, but am disappointed that the EU seems to be taking a "training on copyright data is a copyright violation" stance. This basically kills open models. Only the biggest of companies will be able to strike licensing deals on the scale necessary to produce a model familiar with modern human culture. Any model trained only of public domain data will have surprising knowledge gaps, like a person who has never read a book or watched a movie, only read reviews.