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I can see HN in 2-5 years from now, "Why are there no EU AI startups?" > Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I
by rs999gti 3y ago
I can see HN in 2-5 years from now, "Why are there no EU AI startups?"
> Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I
- Aerroon 3y agoAnd when you get into the weeds it'll boil down to "But you need regulation. Otherwise bad things will happen like <example from recent AI outrage>." And then they continue paying American/Japanese/Chinese companies for access to AI tools.
- jacooper 3y agoThey won't because they wouldn't be able to use them, just like the GDPR and U.S. cloud providers. The EU knows that leaving the market wide open without regulations is basically killing any chance of EU-startups existing. You think China would've had such a big tech scene, if they hadn't limited U.S. companies competitiveness? The GDPR demonstrated this, it kick started many companies, because U.S. companies with their infinite money supply can't buy their way into every market anymore. Plausible, nextcloud, EU hosting companies and many others got a huge boost from the GDPR.
- rs999gti 3y ago> And then they continue paying American/Japanese/Chinese companies for access to AI tools I think the EU companies will just do what they always do and carbon copy American/Japanese/Chinese AI websites and tools. For example, Xing instead of LinkedIn