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Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules (gazeon.site)
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[–] 61 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Meta does not want to comply? Well, fine them to kingdom come, and if they still don't come to heel, block them at IP level.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    there's not a single thing lost by blocking access to meta imo.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    the social media giant will not sign the European Union’s voluntary AI code of practice.

    Emphasis added. If the result of not signing a voluntary code of practice is massive fines and IP blocks, was it really "voluntary?"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    The EU AI Act is the thing that imposes the big fines, and it's pretty big and complicated, so companies have complained that it's hard to know how to comply. So this voluntary code of conduct was released as a sample procedure for compliance, i.e. "if you do things this way, you (probably) won't get in trouble with regulators".

    It's also worth noting that not all the complaints are unreasonable. For example, the code of conduct says that model makers are supposed to take measures to impose restrictions on end-users to prevent copyright infringement, but such usage restrictions are very problematic for open source projects (in some cases, usage restrictions can even disqualify a piece of software as FOSS).

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