New EU Regulations Require Transparency, Copyright Protection From Powerful AI Systems 38
European Union officials unveiled new AI regulations on Thursday that require makers of the most powerful AI systems to improve transparency, limit copyright violations and protect public safety.
The rules apply to companies like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google that develop general-purpose AI systems underpinning services like ChatGPT, which can analyze enormous amounts of data and perform human tasks. The code of practice provides concrete details about enforcing the AI Act passed last year, with rules taking effect August 2.
EU regulators cannot impose penalties for noncompliance until August 2026. Companies must provide detailed breakdowns of content used for training algorithms and conduct risk assessments to prevent misuse for creating biological weapons. CCIA Europe, representing Amazon, Google and Meta, told New York Times the code imposes a disproportionate burden on AI providers.
The rules apply to companies like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google that develop general-purpose AI systems underpinning services like ChatGPT, which can analyze enormous amounts of data and perform human tasks. The code of practice provides concrete details about enforcing the AI Act passed last year, with rules taking effect August 2.
EU regulators cannot impose penalties for noncompliance until August 2026. Companies must provide detailed breakdowns of content used for training algorithms and conduct risk assessments to prevent misuse for creating biological weapons. CCIA Europe, representing Amazon, Google and Meta, told New York Times the code imposes a disproportionate burden on AI providers.
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Considering that most innovations that exist are European, your grandstanding is at the least stupid as fuck.
What have you invented?
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As opposed to the current US, the world leader at stealing everything not locked down, and selling you to anyone buying.
Why, yes, as a published author, copyright does matter to me, scumbag.
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It is actually driven by its inputs, like any other computer program.
Checks out (Score:2, Interesting)
Copyrighted data in / copyrighted data out
Sometimes better is worse. (Score:4, Interesting)
When I was 12, we were making fires at a school camp. Being a scout, I thought my time to shine was then. I applied my knowledge to carefully build up a base with differently sized branches, properly laid out. While I was doing that, the other boys were dragging a bunch of dead branches out of the forest, haphazardly throwing them onto a pile and setting the pile on fire.
Looking at their brightly burning fire and my work in progress, I gave up with much disappointment and (later) realized that my approach was good for some circumstances, but definitely not for this one.
Europe is being a good boy scout.
Re:Sometimes better is worse. (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah it's much more efficient to just start the whole forest on fire which is basically what they want to be allowed to do. Nothing should stand in the way of tech companies being able to make money. Nothing.
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You meant to say start the whole planet on fire, right?
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Europe will likel
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This is way beyond "tech companies making money". This is a technological arms race. And Europe is losing it.
If you think that Chinese AI companies are going to give a flying fuck about these regulations, I have a bridge to sell you. Even most American companies are not going to let the EU block their progress.
Don't get me wrong: in an ideal world, everybody would play by rules similar to the ones the EU sets. Even with all its flaws, it is by far the most rational, well-meaning government entity on this pl
Given the choice (Score:2)
Good Luck Enforcing That (Score:3)
An EU law to impact American companies after they've been slurping the web for over a year? Good luck enforcing that.
This seems like pandering to their base, more than AI protections.
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Yeah good luck with that EU!
*Clicks notification of tracking and cookies that is on every American website*
You'll never have influence over other nation's companies!
Also we want politicians to pander to their base, that's why we elect them, it's their job.
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You'll never have influence over other nation's companies!
Until they want to do business in your country and you can tax the profits they make there.
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Exactly, it's a global world and most companies aren't keen to turn their back on a wealthy 600,000,000 consumer base.
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Exactly, it's a global world and most companies aren't keen to turn their back on a wealthy 600,000,000 consumer base.
True, but it does not stop CEO worshipping Americans from thinking that corporations can act with complete impunity agains nation states despite the fact that every time the EU makes noises about taxing US tech companies their CEOs show up in the oval office to beg Trump for help.
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Then you make a separate company to deal in that market, and rest ignores it.
This isn't new or interesting, and quite a few fields have done it for a long time. IT just hasn't adapted this concept yet, because frankly IT bros still run it and they're fairly naive about the world.
If you want to see how you do it when you're not naive, take a look at global shipping business. There's a reason why even under massive sanctions, Russia continues to maintain a massive fleet that goes around the world delivering o
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Let me guess: you think maritime insurance is same as private insurance for individuals?
Re: Good Luck Enforcing That (Score:2)
This is the wet dream of all AI companies that already scraped the internet: just launder your information through another company, like deepseek did, and you're good to go. Meanwhile, no new entrants can compete with your existing dataset.
Yeah, anyone who thinks this law was meant to protect starving authors need a good head check.
If you can't innovate, regulate! (Score:3)
Re: If you can't innovate, regulate! (Score:1)
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We're already out of the race after Thierry Breton celebrated him pushing through "first AI regulations in the world".
It led to unspeakable event of French President allowing German head of Commission to throw out a French Commissioner. Because after EU elites realized what that French bureaucrat that got too high for his breeches did, they knee jerked so hard that even an unspeakable anathema of a political event like that became not just a possibility, but reality in but a few months. Which is breakneck p
Echos of Napster and Bittorrent (Score:3)
Re: Echos of Napster and Bittorrent (Score:3)
Fuck rentseekers. Fuck eternal copyright.
They're all just parasites looking for a quick buck.
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Eventually, we will have to agree on a global copyright negotiation system, based on sharing.
We had one of those. It was called copyright with the original period. We extended the period repeatedly without doing anything to mitigate the impact. This was done deliberately on behalf of media conglomerates and related holding companies. Now most people have no respect for copyright, which is as it should be, since it's used to harm humans for profit.
The best solution is to return copyright terms to what they were originally, then discuss whether they should be even shorter.
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your correct but way to many lobbyist will never allow it.
I agree, this is absolutely true. Long copyright terms underpin multiple multi-billion dollar industries, let alone specific companies. There is simply too much money opposing rational IP law.
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