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> Not sure what led to that choice. It's the EU AI act. I've tried their cute little app a week ago, designed to let you know if you comply, what you need to r
by NitpickLawyer 1y ago
> Not sure what led to that choice.
It's the EU AI act. I've tried their cute little app a week ago, designed to let you know if you comply, what you need to report and so on. I got a basically yes, but likely no, still have to register to bla-bla and announce yak-yak and do the dooby-doo, after selecting SME - open source - research - no client facing anything.
It was a mess when they proposed it, it was said to be better while they were working on it, turns out to be as unclear and as bureaucratic now that it's out.
- L_226 1y agoWhich app is that?
- NitpickLawyer 1y agoCheck here - https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/assessment/eu-ai-act-compliance-checker/ https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/assessment/eu-ai-act-co... Start on the right, and click through the options. At the end you'll get a sort of assessment of what you need to do.
- kookamamie 1y agoAt the same time Time selected Henna Virkkunen on their AI 200 list: https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305860/henna-virkkunen/ https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305860/henna-v... - they are one of the architects of this AI Act nonsense.
- flanked-evergl 1y agoEU is fully invested into virtue signalling over actual tangible results. People keep saying how much stronger EU's economy is than Russia's, and how Russia is basically a gas station with Nukes, but the thing is, even with EU's "strong" economy Russia has them by the balls. They have to go hat in hand begging the US to step in because they can't do anything themselves, and the US is not going to keep propping up EU long term, especially not with how hostile the Europeans are towards Americans. I live in Europe, I don't want Europe to become a vassal of China/Russia - but if something drastically does not change it will. Russia is Europe's Carthage, Russia must fall. There is no future with a Russia as it is today and a Europe as it is today in it, not because of Europe, but because of Russia. If Europe does not eliminate Russia, Russia will eliminate Europe. I have no doubts about this. But as things stand, there just seems no way in which we practically can counter Russia at all. If Europe had determination, it would have sent Troops into Ukraine and created a no-fly zone — it should do that, but here we are.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoRussia is not a serious threat to Europe. France has nukes and a competent army, and Russia has been shown to be a relatively weak power in its difficulties invading Ukraine. Even if they win the war ultimately, it took so long that it is difficult to imagine them winning in a war with serious powers like France.
- OKRainbowKid 1y agoMilitarily, I agree. But Russia is actively (and successfully) eroding out democracy and societal coherence. They don't need to win militarily if they can instead promote infighting and help corrupt and russia-friendly parties rise to power.
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- suddenlybananas 1y agoBlaming the rise of the far-right on Russia is a bit absurd. Immigration isn't popular even if you think it should be.
- cycomanic 1y agoThere is plenty of evidence that Putin is propping up far right actors all over Europe, is running considerable Desinformation campaigns but yeah it's all those pesty immigrants fault /s
- suddenlybananas 1y agoI sincerely think you need to understand that people can have different beliefs and values than you without that being the result of misinformation.
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- whimsicalism 1y agoi don’t think it is incorrect to select an architect of this regulation as one of the most influential people on AI
- jimbokun 1y agoDoesn't have to be influential in a positive sense.
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- whimsicalism 1y agoexactly
- flanked-evergl 1y agoIf I was Russia and/or China and I wanted to eliminate EU as a potential rival economically and militarily, then I don't think I could have come up with a better way to do it than EU regulations. If it was not for the largess of the US, then EU would become a vassal of Russia and/or China. And I think the US is running out of good will very rapidly. The EU could, of course, shape up, but it won't.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoI'd rather be free and my data safe than be an economic world leader. False dichotomy, I know, but I don't mind the people before money mindset.
- flanked-evergl 1y agoThis is a false dichotomy, you can have privacy and still be militarily and economically relevant. But say that you were right, and you have to choose between privacy and relevance, if you choose privacy, then once you are entirely economically dependent on Russia (Europe is still paying more in energy money to Russia than in aid to Ukraine) and China — when Europe is a vassal — it won't be able to make its own laws anymore.
- ekianjo 1y agoWith chat control you won't get either.
- londons_explore 1y agoAlmost every country or group of countries today is either a world leader, nearly a world leader, or a vassal state of one of the first two.
- staplers 1y agoI'd rather be free and my data safe than be an economic world leader. You often need the latter to maintain the former.
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- crimsoneer 1y agoI mean, neither the UK nor South Korea are in the EU, nor does it have equivalent laws. I suspect ongoing push from US and China that nobody has the right to be involved in AI regulation that isn't them and just general vibes.
- NitpickLawyer 1y ago> nor does it have equivalent laws The UK has their chat thing where if you provide chat (even with bots!) you have to basically be a megacorp to afford the guardrails they think "the kids" need. It's not clear if open source models fall into that, but who's gonna read 300+ pages of insanity to make sure?
- jonas21 1y agoSouth Korea has a number of unusual regulations, including extremely strict restrictions on spatial data [1] and an AI law that, among other things, requires foreign companies to have a representative physically in South Korea to answer to the government [2]. So it's not too surprising to see it on the list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_South_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat... [2] https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/south-korea-ai-law-2025/ https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/south-korea-ai-law-2...
- llbbdd 1y agoI'm amazed that they could pull themselves together enough to publish an app at all.
- totetsu 1y agothis part? https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/16/ https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/16/