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Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by saubeidl on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:14AM (#46206643)
Unless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.
Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by unmole on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:53AM (#46207241)
This is innumerate bordering on the delusional.
Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by saubeidl on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:26PM (#46210158)
The EU consists of roughly 500M well-off consumers, the US of roughly 300M.

Maybe not quite double, but almost.

Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by pianom4n on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:57PM (#46210551)
And a GDP 2/3 the size. And way less than that by disposable income.

Even users from "rich" EU countries are worth ~30% of a US user to most companies.

Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by saubeidl on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:13PM (#46210735)
Doesn't matter. Rich enough to afford most products, as pretty much the only market other than the US. And more people. Biggest addressable market for most things.
Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by lm28469 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:43PM (#46211762)
So what? Even people living in poor EU countries buy iphones, use windows, watch Netflix

If the market was at best 1/3rd of the US no one would bother implementing all these regulations

Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by unmole on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:08PM (#46212856)
And yet Apple, Microsoft and Netflix make significantly more revenue from the US than the EU. It's almost as if the EU is not actually a bigger market.
Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by saubeidl on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:22AM (#46215378)
Or maybe their products just aren't that compelling ;-)
Re:Is your AI system illegal in the EU? by unmole on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:41AM (#46217052)
Yeah, it's definitely not the low purchasing power.

Like I said, delusional.