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.

I don't see the downside of blocking everything Meta.

nothing immediately makes me side with europe more than the phrase "meta takes hard line against"

I’ve convinced a friend to stop using Facebook in the past week after getting him to pay attention to the algorithm feed and how it’s picking up on shit he’s talking about but not searching for, and increasing his anxiety. Including confiding private conversation he had with me. Feels good !demeta@programming.dev

I have a question. Why do we see this every alternate week about META breaking a law, not agreeing to standards, hacking their way with loopholes and legislation. And STILLLL nothing ever bad happens to Meta?

Why are they still existing? If any company causes depression to teenagers, Creates or aides genocide, Misuses data, How are they still existing?

Are we daft? Or are the lawmakers? Or the government? Meta is evil. Period. They cant keep getting away with this.

that the social media giant will not sign the European Union’s voluntary AI code of practice. His reasoning was stark: “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI.”

These rules, which take effect next month, are meant to help companies navigate compliance with Europe’s sweeping AI Act passed last year.

🤦 And later then they complain about the difficulty to navigate the rules and about the fines, you bet?

I would love to see Europe ban/block the API endpoints that AI communicates over.

Then ban all Meta endpoints if/when meta moves AI communication onto the same endpoints as non-AI communication.

European laws are not perfect, but they at least make an effort to put the needs of the people ahead of corporations and the Parasite Class.

The kneejerk reaction is gonna be "Meta bad", but it's actually a bit more complicated.

Whatever faults Meta has in other areas, it's been mostly a good player in the AI space. They're one of the major reasons we have strong open-weight AI models today. Mistral, another maker of open AI models and Europe's only significant player in AI, has also rejected this code of conduct. By contrast, OpenAI a.k.a. ClosedAI has committed to signing it, probably because they are the incumbents and they think the increased compliance costs will help kill off competitors.

Personally, I think the EU AI regulation efforts are a big missed opportunity. They should have been used to force a greater level of openness and interoperability in the industry. With the current framing, they're likely to end up entrenching big proprietary AI companies like OpenAI, without doing much to make them accountable at all, while also burying upstarts and open source projects under unsustainable compliance requirements.

EU:

you’re done here

In the 60s it was the atom bomb regulation they had to sign. A "few hours later" in 2025 it's the Ai regulation. My prediction 60 years from now, there will be a regulation of who an what you can do on Mars. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Ok, well, guess it won’t be voluntary for much longer.

Please just boot out Meta out of EU to make lives better