First, note that facial recognition is not the same thing as being able to recognize celebrities. It's about being able to identify you or me as we go about our

First, note that facial recognition is not the same thing as being able to recognize celebrities. It's about being able to identify you or me as we go about our daily lives. > Sounds like the devil is in the details. What if you scrape a large quantity of images and the end result just happens to be able to recognize many faces? I think you can solve this by focusing on the end result. If you create a tool that scrapes images, processes them in some way, and ends up being capable of facial recognition, then it should fall under the purview of this law. > Hosted services like ChatGPT can "solve" this by refusing to identify faces, and if you hack around it with prompt engineering, well, they can tell the EU that they tried And then the EU can reply "you didn't try hard enough, now take down the tool and pay these fines". However, is there any sign that ChatGPT can do general facial recognition? > Open source models that can handle images, though? Hopefully this regulation does not end up forbidding the use of general-purpose open source models This a more valid worry, to my mind.