That reads like a gift to US and Chinese tech companies. Also explains why Apple isn’t launching in EU:

“Like the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, the Act can apply extraterritorially to providers from outside the EU if they have users within the EU.”

> Also explains why Apple isn’t launching in EU

I don't buy it. From the AI act:

> Generative AI, like ChatGPT, will not be classified as high-risk, but will have to comply with transparency requirements and EU copyright law:

    > Disclosing that the content was generated by AI
    Designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content
    Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training

 

> High-impact general-purpose AI models that might pose systemic risk, such as the more advanced AI model GPT-4, would have to undergo thorough evaluations and any serious incidents would have to be reported to the European Commission.

> Content that is either generated or modified with the help of AI - images, audio or video files (for example deepfakes) - need to be clearly labelled as AI generated so that users are aware when they come across such content.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO...

Seems reasonable to me. My theory is that they are still salty about the DMA, so that's the payback.

As the article points out:

> Meta's issue isn't with the still-being-finalized AI Act, but rather with how it can train models using data from European customers while complying with GDPR — the EU's existing data protection law.

Well played, I've glossed over the significance of that sentence!